(535 quotes found)
“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again”
L. Frank Baum
“How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.”
Otto Frank
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.”
Hank Williams
“I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.”
Cher
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.”
Charles de Gaulle
“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
B. B. King
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight”
John Ruskin