Quotes About Primary Colors

#1. Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

John Travolta

#2. Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

Emily Post

#3. Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.

Stephen King

#5. Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.

Richard Dahlstrom

#6. How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.

Dan Savage

#7. Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Joe Klein

#8. I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.

Dennis Cooper

#9. Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

Edward Norton

#10. Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

James Carville

#11. I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

Richelle Mead

#12. Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Robert Benton

#13. Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

Rita Mae Brown

#14. Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

Paul Hindemith

#15. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

#16. Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

Czeslaw Milosz

#17. You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth.

Anonymous

#18. The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots. Behind her, a big red dildo-shaped spaceship was just blasting off for the moon.

Sue Grafton

#19. What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#20. You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

Irvine Welsh

#21. Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Karl Kraus

#22. I love sea salt spray but I hate being salty from the ocean, so I'll always shower after surfing, shampoo and condition my hair and then put in the salt spray. It's sort of a reverse cycle, but I just can't do the natural sea salt - it just feels too crunchy to go out with.

Laura Enever

#23. Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

Peter Dicken

#24. Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

David Brower

#25. When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.

Andrew Flintoff

#26. I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

Placido Domingo

#27. He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did ... well, he could deal with Charles

Patricia Briggs