Colorless Quotes - Page 2

• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Mean, Science, Iodine

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”

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• Si uno hojea cualquier periódico o revista y busca verbos activos y pataleantes en las frases, se dará cuenta de que esta falta de verbos bien utilizados es el principal problema de la escritura inglesa moderna. Casi toda la literatura de no ficción actual está escrita en una especie de salsa pálida e incolora de pasivos e infinitivos, inmóvil y plana como el papel.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Writing, Editing, Kicking

  Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”

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• Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Color, People

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Night, Men, World

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.1479, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Order, Color, Humanity

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.15, Vintage

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• Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  White, People, House

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

  Alice Meynell

  Spring, Wind, Sky

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• La palabra "cristiano" significa cosas diferentes para cada persona. Para una persona significa un modo de vida rígido, recto, inflexible, incoloro e inflexible. Para otro significa una aventura arriesgada, llena de sorpresas, vivida de puntillas al borde de la expectativa... Si obtenemos nuestra información del material bíblico, no hay duda de que la vida cristiana es una vida danzante, saltarina y atrevida.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Adventure, Mean

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• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Ohio, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed .  I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  Arthur Honegger

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

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• el Estado sólo aspira a inculcar en su público aquellas cualidades por las que se obedecen sus demandas y se llena su erario. Su mayor logro es la reducción de la humanidad a un mecanismo de relojería. En su atmósfera, todas aquellas libertades más finas y delicadas, que requieren tratamiento y espaciosa expansión, inevitablemente se secan y perecen. El Estado requiere una máquina de pagar impuestos en la que no haya ningún problema, un erario público en el que nunca haya déficit, y un público monótono, obediente, incoloro, sin espíritu, que se mueva humildemente como un rebaño de ovejas a lo largo de una carretera recta entre dos muros.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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• Los mediocres suelen tener un matiz religioso, pero es sólo un matiz. Toman su religión como viene. Pueden rezar y rendir culto con más o menos regularidad, y normalmente se mantienen alejados de los delitos públicamente vergonzosos, pero son tibios, incoloros. Rara vez o nunca leen un libro serio sobre la oración o estudian para aprender más sobre Dios y sus planes, para descubrir cómo ser humildes y castos y pacientes. Siempre están demasiado ocupados para la única cosa necesaria.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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• Una vez oí un gran consejo a un joven: haz siempre lo que tengas miedo de hacer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fear, Light, Rays

  "Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• Las chicas como tú sois las responsables de todos los cansinos matrimonios incoloros; de todas esas espantosas ineficiencias que pasan por cualidades femeninas. ¡Qué golpe debe ser cuando un hombre con imaginación se casa con el hermoso bulto de ropa en torno al cual ha estado construyendo ideales, y descubre que ella es sólo una débil, quejumbrosa y cobarde masa de afectaciones!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Girl, Blow

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

  Edmund Burke

  Water, Smooth, Insipid

  "Complete Works of Edmund Burke".

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• En primer lugar aparecerá ante ti, más veloz que un relámpago, el esplendor luminoso de la luz incolora del Vacío, y eso te rodeará por todos lados. ...Trata de sumergirte en esa luz, abandonando toda creencia en un yo separado, todo apego a tu ego ilusorio.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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• Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Party, Idols

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

  Albert Camus

  Rivers, Talking, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Sea, Space

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press

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• Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

  Mikhail Tal

  Mistake, Errors, Games

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• Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Hate, Heart, World

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• New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

  Cate Marvin

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Toda la velocidad que tomó, todos los giros que dio y las curvas que cortó en Night City, y aún veía la matriz en sueños, brillantes entramados de lógica desplegándose por aquel vacío incoloro.

  William Gibson

  Taken, Sleep, Cutting

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.9, Penguin

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• Lo que se denomina Pecado es un elemento esencial del progreso. Sin él, el mundo se estancaría, envejecería o perdería su color. Por su curiosidad, el Pecado aumenta la experiencia de la raza. Con su afirmación intensificada del individualismo, nos salva de la monotonía del tipo. En su rechazo de las nociones corrientes sobre la moralidad, es uno con la ética superior.

  Oscar Wilde

  Race, Rejection, Curiosity

  Oscar Wilde (1908). “Intentions”

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