Purple The Color Quotes

#1. Twilight deepened. The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black.

George R R Martin

#2. I love Russia. Some people love Africa, some people love Mexico, some people love purple, the color purple. I love Russia, and I'm not scared to say it.

Steven Seagal

#3. The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.

James Lee Burke

#4. Purple - the color of royalty and holiness and wealth.

Anita Diamant

#5. If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.

Victoria Finlay

#6. Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

Janet Fitch

#7. 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Steven Spielberg

#8. The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Alice Walker

#9. [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Whoopi Goldberg

#10. I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

Lupita Nyong'o

#11. She lived in shades of black and gray - sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband - but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.

Nicole Williams

#12. You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Alice Walker

#13. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

#14. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

Suzy Kassem

#15. ...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you.

Sanober Khan

#16. I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

Steven Spielberg

#17. You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

John Kricfalusi

#18. I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

Sarah Hyland

#19. Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.

Alice Walker

#21. I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.

Paul Dano

#22. I think purple is the only color that suits me most.

Onew

#23. The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

Mark Kurlansky

#24. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

Alice Walker

#25. He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

Jerry Falwell

#26. My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

Elizabeth Taylor

#27. He gives me one of those twinkling stares. His eyes coalesce and fragment color, glinting specks of midnight purple and an electric blue, when the light catches them just right. Straight on they look like indelible pitch, well deep with secrets and primordial darkness.

Poppet

#28. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.

Alice Hoffman

#29. My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

Tracy Morgan

#30. I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

Alice Walker

#31. What if we could paint the moon a different color? Like - purple?

Tessa Emily Hall

#32. When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

Mae Jemison

#33. My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

Heather Headley

#34. Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Alice Walker

#35. The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow ... We keep it nice and simple.

Emily Browning

#36. Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple
the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

Bert McCracken

#37. There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.

Stephen King

#38. The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset ... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.

James Elkins

#39. He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

Tommy Bond

#40. She held a bluebell up to the light; and Dunstan could not but observe that the color of sunlight glittering through the purple crystal was inferior in both hue and shade to that of her eyes.

Neil Gaiman

#41. The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

Alice Hoffman

#42. I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Alice Walker

#43. I rode Caro's bike down a hill with no hands, and then I went sock shopping because I was sad to say goodbye to Alfred, and the socks were cute, but there was this purple lace bra." She ground to a halt, cheeks steaming. "It was the same color as Alfred.

Debora Geary

#44. There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

Pliny The Elder

#45. Political truths are like colors in the rainbow, they may be true, except like the color purple which is created in the mind, however they are not THE WHOLE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, colorless and yet all colors, seen and unseen.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

#46. Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Alice Walker

#47. The Color Purple received four Tony nominations; the play is highly looked at and it's a must see for everyone. I just want to carry on what Jennifer Hudson has done and help the team get to the finish line.

Heather Headley

#48. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

Jack Kerouac

#49. Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

Whoopi Goldberg

#50. Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

Tae Yun Kim

#51. Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is the best color, man, it's the best color, it just is the best color.' I have a lot of purple shirts and stuff, I'm always wearing purple.

Synyster Gates

#52. She was dressed in the softest grape blue, a gentle color neither navy nor purple, nor yet silver. It was subtle, expensive and extremely flattering.

Anne Perry

#53. If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

Doug Dawson