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Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

“Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.”

White Wind Clouds Wave Ships Instant Pale Sailor Freeze Trembling Deck Tempest Howl Foam Shrouds Masts Storm Clouds

Book:The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

Source: The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

“One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.”

Knows Way Turns White Travel Rivers Currents Rushing Foam

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

Earth Stars Dark White Fire Bed Rivers Stones Seeds Remembered Pockets Skirts Arranging

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.”

Ifs Heart Long Dream Song Language Simple White Bones Ambiguity Loveliness Agitate

Book:West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

Source: West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.”

Black White Color Red Green Instance Colour Contrast Black And White Simultaneous

Book:Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

Knows Looks Eye White Paint Conviction Strikes Spots Boards

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.”

Use Easy White Paper Drawing Mediums Fantastic Range Erase Charcoal

Author:John Berger

“Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.”

May Light Heaven White Spring Clouds Milk Flocks Goeth White Clouds

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.”

Hands Together White Break Tree Wave Weather Sand March Weed Fierce Trunks Foam Tree Trunks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.”

Men Age White White Man Widows Doubtful

Author:Horace Greeley

“In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.”

Nature White Spring Green Carpet Housewife Thrifty

Book:Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896

Source: Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896

“White must be the lightest color in a picture.”

White Color

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.”

Sleep White Walks Delight Height Sheep Folds Flocks Steep

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.”

Art Important School Form White Quality Movement Reflection Window Works Of Art Curtains Great Work Lace

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.”

Art Light Speak White Sun Materials Perfection Painter Shade Yellow Patents

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”

Needs Feels Self Turns Black White Discovery Self Discovery Painter Black And White

Author:Barnett Newman

“In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.”

World Sometimes Black White Corporate Black And White Procedures Accounting Corporate World

Author:George W. Bush

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.”

People Heart White Saws Sea Army Shoulders Sunshine Host June Daisies Slopes

Book:Bliss Carman's Poems

Source: Bliss Carman's Poems

“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.”

Art Use Light Artist Black White Knowing Objects Painting Skills Convinced Supreme Relief Shade Black And White

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.”

Said Facts House White Plans Ought Cost Taxes Billions Clever White House Bob Cleverness Sloppy Very Clever

Author:Bob Dole

“White does not exist in nature.”

Doe White

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

Years Children Stills Ends School White Written Pages Research Paint Frustration Forty Bangs Slap Mania Malady Forty Years Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.”

Men Heart May White Flower My Heart Spring Green Clean Dear Delight Lovely Lilies Bursting May Flowers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .”

People Feels Fall Fighting White Europe Weak Humble Rage Tendencies Aggression Modest Polite Outburst Tropics

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?”

People Doe Black White Comfortable Hollywood Skins Opposites Majority Dare Actresses Latin Black People Maids

Author:Rosie Perez

“My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!”

Done White Havens Mountain Determination Paint Decent Layers Old Lady

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.”

Knows Want White Bible Meat Where You Are Fatness

Author:Ellen G. White

“In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.”

World Needs Real Three Black White Numbers Achieve Effects Paper Extremes Mediums Tone Gray Real World Large Numbers

Author:Stan Smith

“By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.”

Years Has Beens Sometimes House White Break Six Crisis Tired Factors White House Fatigue

Author:Ed Rollins

“But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.”

Born White Calm Swans

Author:Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

“I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.”

Hate White I Hate Winter Colour Autumn

Author:Simon Schama

“It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.”

Believe Government America House White Effort Congress Spending White House Efficiency Federal Government Belts

Author:Tom Coburn

“We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.”

Thinking Different Black Differences White Views Color Perception Black And White Puritan Different Views Bright Colors

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.”

Film Black White Concerned Dresses Instance Tone Black And White Curtains

Author:Julie Harris

“My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.”

People Government Form Used White Deals Leader Corruption Lists Gaps Collars Plugs White Collar

Author:Jakaya Kikwete

“I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.”

Thinking Country House Justice White Commitment White House Ambiguity Racial Justice

Author:Richard Lugar

“Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.”

Has Beens Seems Used White Powerful Paper Ideals Direct Accepted Mediums Conventions Brutal Could Have Been White Paper

Book:Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne

Source: Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne

“I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Lying White Sea Sky Color Swim Infinity Beaten Torn

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.”

Film Black White Family Phones Black And White Family And Friends Catching Sofas Catching Up Duvets

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.”

World Giving Pain Spiritual Next White Creatures Raises Sake Hills Merit Companion Ants No Pain

Author:Guru Nanak

“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.”

Thinking Mean Shows Black White Figures Healthy Impression Instance Chiefs Interpretation Black And White Earning Accounting Accountants

Author:Steve Odland

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