Color Guards

Famous quotes containing the words color and/or guards:

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

“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)