Blood Orange Sayings

#1. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.

Claude Cahun

#2. I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear ... ?!?!

Rick Riordan

#3. It seemed as though he'd fluttered away like the tarnished, blood-orange leaves as they preformed their last dance, the dance of death.

Daawy

#4. When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

Dev Hynes

#5. When I was still a piccanin she tutuzela'd me on her back, a back-to-front kangaroo. Snug in the hollow of her back, I felt her humming and singing seep into me." (from "Blood Orange: A Novel" by Troy Blacklaws)

Troy Blacklaws

#6. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.

William Boyd

#7. Cold. Foggy cold. Soaking through fabric, biting into the skin, clutching the bones until flesh crawled.
There was no moonlight, only orange, smoky lanterns, and the light made the snow glitter and turned the shadows into blood.

Erik Tavares

#8. Everyone grew silent. It was sunset now, with orange fire burning in the western sky, and shadows falling across all of us.

Richelle Mead

#9. The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Joshua Reynolds

#10. It's not a visitation by angels, but a weakening in the blood
a magical orange grove in a nightmare

Robert Lowell

#11. The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.

Robert P. Murphy

#13. The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.

Isaac Babel

#14. Don't take it to be foolishness.. It's impossible to be wise in love.

Harry

#15. The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in.

Isaac Marion

#16. Then I remembered that night is the fairies' day, and the moon their sun; and I thought - Everything sleeps and dreams now: when the night comes, it will be different.

George MacDonald

#17. Oh Demonation, the noise he made! Its colour - blue and black with streaks of orange - were as bright as the blood that gushed from his arms.

Various

#18. There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

Margaret Atwood

#19. Tyson, thank the gods. Annabeth is hurt!'
'You thank the gods she is hurt?' He asked, puzzled.
'No!

Rick Riordan

#20. We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Charlie Kaufman

#21. Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

Katie MacAlister

#22. May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

#23. Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The closet is a powerful thing. It makes you accept things you never thought you would in order to preserve the facade that you present to the outside world.

Sean Kennedy

#25. A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Orison Swett Marden