(882 quotes found)
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
Albert Einstein
“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?”
Jacques Plante
“Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda”
African Proverb
“The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.”
Charlie Brown
“I see trees of green........ red roses tooI see ’em bloom..... for me and for youAnd I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.I see skies of blue..... clouds of whiteBright blessed days....dark sacred nightsAnd I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the skyAre also on the faces.....of people ..going byI see friends shaking hands.....sayin’.. how do you doThey’re really sayin’......I love you.”
Louis Armstrong
“Red dress, strappy shoes? wow. She's really staring at you. - Shit. - And she seems to be crying.Less happy. I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini”
Penelope Cruz
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
Wendell Berry
“Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?”
Robert Herrick
