
Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-
coloured glasses of ignorance! —
Dr Steven Bottomley

At university I had a big
coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion. —
Matt Smith

I used to have two brown-
coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta. —
Mini Grey

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be
coloured by desire. —
Richard Dawkins

Their love was something which
coloured the air between them like sunlight. —
Joanne Harris

a girl in a lemon-
coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. —
Hugh Laurie

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always
coloured by the life lived since —
Josephine Hart

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with
coloured flowers and herbs. —
Francis Of Assisi

Their faces were clay-
coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. —
Rebecca West

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially
coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. —
Bennett Cerf

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so
coloured by romance. —
Oscar Wilde

Robina Fairfax's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own, so variously
coloured and oddly shaped were they. —
Barbara Pym

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other
coloured face. —
Jourdan Dunn

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light
coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd. —
Norman Hartnell

Education than most
coloured folks. When she squinted —
Harper Lee

I'm also a fan of ridiculously
coloured and patterned socks. —
Daniel Radcliffe

The place has entered me...it has
coloured my life like a stain. —
Adam Nicolson

Justice was like
coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. —
Qiu Xiaolong

Open, oh
coloured world, without weight, without shore. You are second and better; this was first and feeble. —
C.S. Lewis

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-
coloured glasses. —
Audrey Hepburn

Flat muscled and honey
coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. —
Arundhati Roy

concept: me, sailing through the milky way with many-
coloured stars caught in my hair. there's no pain up here, only laughter and peace —
L.J. Buchanan

But I think I'm
coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood. —
Virginia Woolf

but the priest's vestments are parti-
coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. —
Thomas More

Who ever told you a Chinaman was a
coloured man? —
Kurt Vonnegut

The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-
coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils. —
Lauren Oliver

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-
coloured glasses. —
Mark E. Smith

All these many-
coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return. —
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming
coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured —
Joan Aiken

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of
coloured slurries on the palette. —
James Elkins

The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare. —
G.K. Chesterton

For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly
coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also. —
J.M. Barrie

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. —
G.K. Chesterton

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-
coloured." And —
Leo Perutz

I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-
coloured hair and bad skin. —
Katie McGrath

All humans are
coloured. Or else you wouldn't be able to see them. —
Loesje

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are
coloured by the need for amazement. —
Ben Okri

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily
coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. —
Kazuo Ishiguro

You have me like a drawing, erased,
coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. —
Carol Ann Duffy

Kayla snatched the ruby-
coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the one who got it off me," she said. —
Meg Cabot

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With
coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive ... —
David Gray

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly
coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality. —
Margaret Mitchell

In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny
coloured lights, like the tears I saw glistening in my brother's eyes. —
V.C. Andrews