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“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.”

Eye Sick Let Me Heat Sunshine Yellow Frowning

Author:Anne Sexton

“I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.”

Men Use Used Black Simple White Painting Materials Blue Mediums Yellow Ivory Flakes Simple Man

Author:L. S. Lowry

“A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.”

House Gold Trade West Heavy Oil East Finance Ingredients Communist Yellow Metals Pale Perfume Moscow Collateral Bulgaria Pale Yellow

Author:S. J. Perelman

“I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.”

People Firsts Wells White Car New York Building Months Couple Red Clean Yellow Well Dressed Red And Yellow

Book:Loon Lake: A Novel

Source: Loon Lake: A Novel

“No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.”

“Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.”

“They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.”

Men Hands Land Racism Yellow Rifles Foreign Lands

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.”

Humans Wells States Body Pain Causes Black Blood Health Constitution Substance Proportion Yellow Quantity Human Body Constituents

Book:Hippocratic writings

Source: Hippocratic writings

“Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.”

Thinking Would Be Hair Yellow Johnson Trademarks

Author:Rachel Johnson

“Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.”

Thinking Feels Trying Persons Might Girl Impossible Blind Impact Yellow Blind Person

Author:Alex Kapranos

“I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.”

Littles Eye Revenge Snow Yellow Crystals Vigorous Retribution Mittens Circular Motion

Author:Frank Zappa

“Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.”

Years Book Lines Fire Our Lives Love You Pages Romantic Burning Cracks Yellow Binding Through The Years Mellow

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.”

Kind Reason Character Seems Voice Sweet Dumb Yellow

Author:Tom Kenny