(121 quotes found)
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.”
William Shakespeare
“I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.”
Paris Hilton
“No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.”
Christy Mathewson
“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.”
T.S. Eliot
“In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.”
Gustave Flaubert
“The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party!”
Christine Anderson
“At zero there was the flash. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball . . . . A mushroom-shaped cloud of glowing magenta began to rise over the desert where the explosion had been. My first thought was, "My God, that is beautiful!"”
Jeremy Bernstein
“Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.”
Virginia Woolf
“He carries so many tacklers with him, he's listed in the Yellow Pages under 'Public Transportation.'”
Bob Hope
“Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.”
Fran Drescher
