Local Color Quotes

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom. — Winston Churchill

Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome. — Bill Nye

You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. — Anthony Trollope

Again its time to pray for peace. — Reba McEntire

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. — Hervey Allen

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical. — Tyra Banks

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. — John Calvin

Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history. — Jonathan Franzen

I had become Harry Potter. Except I was thirteen and not magic, and my destiny, whatever it was, held no profound purpose. — Tammara Webber

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it. — Al Pacino

Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations, and local color is not a fast color. — Vladimir Nabokov

I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color. — Stanley Karnow

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. — A. Powell Davies

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt