Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)

    “It’s the old captain’s dark fate
    Who failed to find or force a strait
    In its two-thousand-mile coast;
    And his crew left him where he failed,
    And nothing came of all he sailed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
    With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
    There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
    Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)