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)

    “In Tsegihi,
    In the house made of dawn,
    In the house made of the evening twilight,
    In the house made of the dark cloud, ...
    Oh, male divinity!
    With your moccasins of dark cloud, come to us.”
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “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)