“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.” EndsLightFallCuttingSkyFrontsColorRainTwentiesMilesEveningGatesThickTornPurpleOaksPlumsEvening SkyAngola Author:James Lee
“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.” LooksLightSunSkyMinutesColorTwentiesSpotsSunsetIsolatedFifteenPurple Author:James Elkins
“No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.” HardWould BeThreeBlackWhiteFourGroupsColorTwentiesVariousRangeThirtyThrownBottlesLightningRainbowComplexionColors Of The Rainbow Author:Mary Church Terrell
“Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?” ShouldYearsMillionsSubjectsColorProudInvolvedTwentiesErrorsNobleDoctrineShould IMathematicianBe ProudNewtonCalculators Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look flawless even when faced with that unforgiving Jumbotron!” LooksHelpingHoursFourColorTwentiesTrainHelp MeSheerCreamFlawlessUnforgivingHydration Author:Lindsey Vonn
“If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.” IfsTryingYearsLooksPastCommunityCareersColorLowsTwentiesCornersIncomeOver The PastAround The CornerLow Income Author:Van Jones
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.” TakenHappenedColorBrotherComfortableScientistTwentiesPhotographExpectedMagazinesMy BrotherAlmightyMechanicTwenty OneHiroshimaScientific Truth Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five