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“Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.”

Kind Doe Light Three Dark Color Red Aspect Intense Defined Hue Light Dark

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.”

Persons Said Kids Remember Used Red Unions Stuck Soviet Capitalist Grandfather Soviet Union My Grandfather Remember Me

Author:Lubos Motl

“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.”

“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Different Hands Results Views Taken Position Red Destruction Should Have Army Campaigns Fighter Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided Red Army

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.”

Ifs Hands Earth Force Stars Genius Quiet Red Overcoming Calm Strikes Terrific Bolts Volcanoes Gravitation Quiet Strength

Author:Peter Bayne

“My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.”

Shows Wanted Moving Left Water Fire Doors Son Summer Red Kitchen My Son Seconds Engines Show Me Summer Days Spilling

Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Source: Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”

Running Behinds Morning Sun Tree Wall Red Stones Rising Silver Gray Chill November Cardinals Squirrels Stone Walls Scallops

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.”

People Ifs Giving Real Self Lasts Havens Hair Red Real Life Censorship Red Hair Self Censorship

Author:Carol Bly

“Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.”

Kind Hard Remember Used Names Principles Wife Fronts Members Red Population Doctrine Instant Latter Flags Bulls Bosoms Covenant Celestial Polygamy Pluralism Gentiles Wedlock Red Flags

Author:Ardyth Kennelly

“I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.”

Thinking Worry Red Looking Good Only Time Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Camila Alves

“I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.”

Men Home Three Lost Rooms Tears Dad Red My Dad Ran Mask Pairs Laughed Pants Costumes Spiders Underwear Drawers Spider Man

Author:Emun Elliott

“I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.”

People Thinking Use Seems Able Hate Love Is Red I Hate Blind Statements Flags Love Is Blind Red Flags

Author:Eric Close

“Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.”

Sky Moon Late Summer Red East Boat Pushing Ashes Hung Coast Rockets Lofty Brightness Glitter Overhead

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“There is no red tapism in my state, only red carpet.”

States Red India Carpet Governance Red Carpet

Author:Narendra Modi

“There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.”

Light Waiting Red Frustrated Red Lights

Author:Kevin Garnett

“To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.”

“What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.”

Thinking Red Catholic Comedian Jimmy Jackie

Author:Buddy Hackett

“I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.”

Ifs Long Wanted Guy Player Doors Media Office Long Time Red Flags Long Time Ago Red Flags

Author:Jim Leyland

“I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.”

Knows Mets Ambition Red Buttons Putin Reset Reset Button

Author:Carly Fiorina

“When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.”

Faces Blood Red Criminals Betray Bloody Thirst Morbid Obscene Reflexes Debauchery

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

“With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.”

People Way Want Trying Years Play Kids Black White Red Years Ago Tricks Realising Dressings Stripes Black Music White Stripes

Author:Jack White

“I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.”

Way Should Growing Up Growing Particular Hair Red Details Chinese Minors Implications Differentiate Red Hair

Author:David Henry Hwang

“I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Opportunity Red League Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.”

Should Heart May Home Eye White Forever Land Beats Red Blue Brave Wave Flying Flags Boast Acquaintance Brag Heart Beat Emblems Red White And Blue

Author:George M. Cohan

“Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.”

Black Blood Shadow Red Midnight

Book:Midnight's Daughter

Source: Midnight's Daughter

“Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!”

Source: The Virginians: Christie's Collections

“I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.”

Thinking World Ideas War Moving Cold Red Insecurity Cold War Peril Old Ideas Itching

Author:John Anderson

“If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.”

Ifs Thinking Belief Red Paint British Like Me Superstitions If There Is A God

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.”

Long Red Communism Indiana Moscow

Author:Bobby Knight

“A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.”

Light Three Cases Paper Red Geek Printer Red Lights Trays Funny Computer

Author:Dave Barry

“My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.”

People Men Feels May Black White Feet Red Roots Brown Tall Yellow Alex Digging Black White

Author:Alex Haley

“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source: Gormenghast

“The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.”

Two Remember Young Mother Opinion Path Childhood Red Indian Freak Lawns Nun Teresa Gravel Tow Sari

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.”

Firsts Art Beautiful Artist Felt Modern Events Honor First Time Red Dresses Dinner Museums Sheer Carpet Closing Red Carpet Lace Modern Art Retrospective Givenchy

Author:Joan Smalls

“Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.”

Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

“The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”

Wells May War Country Left Middle Ready Red Zone Coast Fifth Columns

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.”

Thinking Years Looks Past Three Fashion Clothes Red Tiny Proportion Three Years Dressings Carpet Red Carpet Love Fashion

Author:Carolina Herrera

“I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun. You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.”

Thinking Way Heart Light Artist Fun Red Hospitals Portraits Great Art Great Artist Heart Attack Holland Nyc Amsterdam Red Lights Letterman

Author:Howard Stern

“I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.”

Stills Wanted Goes On Red Baseball Who I Am Shirts Jeans T Shirt Carpet Caps Red Carpet Baseball Caps

Author:Missy Peregrym

“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”

“Santa will be showing up with Rudolph the Red-Eyed Reindeer.”

Red Santa Showing Up Reindeer Rudolph

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.”

Problem Light Development Majors Models Red Blind Environmental China Warning Pollution Major Problems Red Lights Smog Environmental Pollution

Author:Li Keqiang

“I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.”

Forever Land Proud Red Rivers Landscape Conservation Spectacular Colorado

Author:Louis Bacon

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.”

Needs Shows Names Cities Compassion Arms Angel Red Hollywood Wings Spread Generosity Carpet Red Carpet Open Arms City Of Angels

Author:Maria Shriver

“Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.”

Worst Red Hollywood Roger Reactionaries Ginger

Book:Conversations with Losey

Source: Conversations with Losey

“Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.”

School Common Mistake College High School Red Financial Burden Debt Finance Instruction Graduates Formal Senior Personal Finance

Author:Alexa Von Tobel

“I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.”

My Friends Red Holes Thumbs Sweaters Cozy Cardigans

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.”

Fiction Crime Red Trade Outcomes Tactics Doubtful Fiction Writers Withholding Herring Red Herrings

Author:Garry Disher

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