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The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.


Tom Stoppard

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TOM STOPPARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and s...
FRANZ MARC In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese c...
VINCENT TAN Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, ...
OTTO HEINRICH WARBURG The engine got most of the attention, but the "little red caboose," which was also brown, green, blu...
DONALD DALE JACKSON Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the...
DAVID CARSON The sky inside my head never turns blue. It if forced to stay red. By the demon, who is yellow insid...
AKSHAY VASU Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quit...
MITCH HEDBERG It was a uniform green last year, as they are in Australia. But this colour we call 'U.S. Open blue'...
DAVID NEWMAN The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Gr...
MITCH HEDBERG I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.
LORELEI LINKLATER In a blue state, the party of a red governor has the Democrats appearing green with envy.
DAVID MCCUAN You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shir...
OLLY MURS Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear ...
JACKEE HARRY It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has ...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours ar...
GABRIEL LIPPMANN The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and n...
ALICE MEYNELL I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group th...
JOHN BARTON Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
TOMMY SMOTHERS In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be s...
DONALD THOMAS We're conditioned to think tomatoes are round, red and hard. But heirlooms are all colors, ranging f...
BILL BEST The greens vary from pale yellow green to deep emerald green and the reds from brick-red to almost b...
NANCY FIERS Knowledge is a house with so many colours, the colour you see determines where you face.
OLASOT 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, / The children walking two and two, in red and...
WILLIAM BLAKE We wanted color and lushness. We wanted a red, yellow and blue palette. It's very much a burst of co...
BRIAN FUN Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn'...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
TOMMY SMOTHERS We always have our classic yellow and our double chocolate and recently we decided to keep red velve...
NOAH ANTIEAU Blue to get ready
Green to go
Yellow to guide you through the snow
Orange to warn you...
ANGIE SAGE I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the...
FRANCIA RAISA There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combinatio...
PAUL KLEE From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you ...
HELEN SHARMAN All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and...
TESS CALLAHAN [The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purpl...
KEVIN STARR The first thing you notice almost immediately it has more of an orange, yellow and red hue to it tha...
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JOHN MOTSON Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota...
KAKI KING While walking in a toy store
The day before today,
I overheard a Crayon Box
With many thin...
ANON. The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real ...
EDWARD ABBEY Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL Saturday is full of orange oranges,
Sunday is full of pink apples,
Monday is full of green...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Real patriots are the women who witnessed their assaulter claim dominion over red, white, and blue a...
BRITT GREIFELD In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.
JIM DAVIS England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,-- The streaming r...
GEORGE LUNT I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially ...
ELLE FANNING There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was every...
TAHEREH MAFI Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
BILLY CARTER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be...
MITCH GLAZER Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
ANISH KAPOOR White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, a...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON When the light turns green, you go.When the light turns red, you stop.But what do you do when the li...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The tolerance here is a quarter-inch of yellow, and there's another quarter-inch in the red. It was ...
JOE BALASH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at i...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It comes in about 50 different colors now. Blond tortoise with a moss-green inlay; dark mahogany; re...
DREW MEIROW How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainb...
CHRIS KATTAN Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's...
ANISH KAPOOR My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical ex...
ALAN GARNER Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed.
JONATHAN COE When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.
DYLAN LAUREN Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
BILLY CARTER A experience shared, is an experience gained.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I had a dream about you last night... You turned red, then green, and then blue. You told me you wer...
AMY SOMMERS Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping i...
EMMA DONOGHUE The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, mar...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Spices are like colors: if you mix them all together you get a taste that is akin to the colors blac...
CLIFFORD COHEN May is green and pink and red
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
SUZANNE COLLINS It doesn’t matter of what colour you are as long as there is green clolur in your pocket.
VIKRANT PARSAI Orange is what red and yellow can do when they combine efforts. If you paint only with red, you will...
REGGIE JOINER Mormon tea is another one. It has a pretty yellow-green flower.
PAUL WOLTERBEEK Yesterday, blue and yellow card holders were released.
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.
GENA SHOWALTER “A vessel of knowledge has little value unless it is shared.” ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred...
LYN KEY I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and r...
HAFSAH LAZIAF In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been...
ISAMU AKASAKI She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
OSCAR LEVANT The initial bond is the shared experience.
LUCY MACDONALD In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists o...
FRANK OCEAN A Blue Dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing...
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TOM STOPPARD When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, bu...
TOM STOPPARD I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have...
TOM STOPPARD My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally ...
TOM STOPPARD Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
TOM STOPPARD There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man...
TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We...
TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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