Color Coded Quotes

#1. I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Ralph Ellison

#2. I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

Neal Shusterman

#3. Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

Rebecca Miller

#4. It's not funny, Joan. My bras are all in the first row, color-coded alphabetically from left to right, and then a row of panties, all folded in little squares, and then slips. And socks along the back row. Everything's so neat it makes me want to throw up.

Virginia Smith

#5. It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Chris Hardwick

#7. The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Bernadette Devlin

#8. After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.

Bryan Cogman

#9. I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Rita Dove

#10. I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.

Adrien Broner

#11. Nature had obviously color-coded people for a reason. Otherwise, what the hell were all these different colors for?

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem.

Caitlin Moran

#13. Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

Conan O'Brien

#15. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#16. Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

William Shockley

#17. The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard DeVoto