Blue Hour Quotes

#1. An uninterrupted view of the Paris skyline was spread out before her, like a giant landscape painting rendered in shades of blue-grey, charcoal and purple-tinted umber; the dreamy palette of shifting shadows at twilight. The blue hour.

Kathleen Tessaro

#2. There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

Kate Christensen

#3. It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Samuel Johnson

#4. To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.

Gary Allan

#5. I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

Theresa May

#6. There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Stephen Rodrick

#7. Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

Newton Arvin

#8. An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!

Ariana Grande

#9. Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

John Williams

#10. Bing was sitting in front of the TV with the de Zoets an hour later when Mr. Manx came out, fully dressed, in his silk shirt and tails and narrow-toed boots. His starved, cadaverous face had an unhealthy sheen to it in the flickering blue shadows.

Joe Hill

#11. Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Iris Murdoch

#12. Am I a fool, Lilly?'
'Yes,' she said simply.

Melissa Lynne Blue

#13. The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris's ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.

Yoon Ha Lee

#14. Twilight hour. Indian blue, water of glass, trees glistening and liquescent.

Henry Miller

#15. Even at this ridiculous hour, and clad in a faded blue t-shirt and ancient pyjama pants, he looked like something Michelangelo might reject for being too beautiful

Tabitha McGowan

#16. Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?

Morrissey

#17. The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

Willem De Kooning

#18. So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Miles Davis

#19. Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Donna Tartt

#20. Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#21. All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.

Maira Kalman

#22. They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Anthony Anderson

#23. Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.

James Joyce

#24. O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt

#25. You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

William Warburton