Color Purple

Famous quotes containing the words color and/or purple:

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

“While making this portage I saw many splendid specimens of the great purple fringed orchis, three feet high. It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)