"His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams."
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"Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen."
"I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing."
"I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people."
"My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map."
"We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin."
"Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you - Nell Harris"
"The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape."
"Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being."
"It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent."
"Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself."
"There are many people of color who are very talented."
"You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors."
"Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour."
"Color will play no part in the art of future."
"Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals."
"Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on."
"Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science."
"As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life."
"You can get it in any color, as long as it is black"