Yellow Quotes

My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side. — Christie Brinkley

Brilliant pale green of her eyes, the buttercup yellow of her hair. — J.R. Ward

I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong. — Lou Holtz

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress? — Jeremy Hawthorn

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others. — Marianne Williamson

If we've learned anything, it's that the combination of yellow smiley faces and blue polyester vests are irresistible to the inbred. — Zach Braff

I figured I'd go west, see what was 'cross the BeeCee border, maybe get there for winter and walk 'cross that frozen ocean like them yellow-haired — Beth Lewis

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones. — Neil Young

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel. — Jonny Wilkinson

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors. — Steven Soderbergh

Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring — Richard L. Ratliff

I tried to blow a yellow jacket out and now it's wearing a bow tie in its mouth. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. — Charles De Lint

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. — Ben Shahn

You still owe me a yellow Porsche. — Stephenie Meyer

It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing - yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water. — David Letterman

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds. — Steven Erikson

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He glared at Mr. Diddley's yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he'd like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it. — Justin Swapp

The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown. — Neal Stephenson

The faint bruise on the side of her cheek had paled to a sickly yellow.
Imagine that. She'd fallen in the shower. Again.
Just ask Daddy. — Veronica Wolff

Sand can be any shade of yellow, from peroxide blond to canary, or even with a tinge of pink.
Yellow sand is tender. — Herta Muller

Thudded heavily against the snow as the thunderous roar of the yellow, glowing-eyed, — Jessica Sorensen

The Yellow River causes a hundred calamities but enriches all it touches — Jiang Rong

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back, — Voltaire

My cup is yellow
Or not, though not's
Impossible
It's yellow — Aram Saroyan

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. — Conor Oberst

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
[Brigs of Ayr] — Robert Burns

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire. — Janice Mirikitani

You might be a redneck if you move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it has turned yellow. — Jeff Foxworthy

After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow. — Salman Rushdie

I'm Crusty, he said, with a tartar-yellow smile.
I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are. — Rick Riordan

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. — J.B. Priestley

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes. — Andrea Barber

The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence. — William Gibson

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. — L. Frank Baum

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. — Florentijn Hofman

Watch out where the Huskies go
And don't you eat that yellow snow — Frank Zappa

The leaves of the tree were yellow, as though they have absorbed all the spring sunshine and were saving it for winter. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

thinking how soon
all in this world passes
I loved
the yellow roses
that now have scattered — Shiki Masaoka

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. — Marya Hornbacher

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. — Vincent Van Gogh

Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around. — Laura Ruby

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting. — Alexander Rodchenko

On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them. — Christa B. Allen

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run. — Robert Jordan

He wore pink linen slacks, white sneakers and a canary yellow open-neck shirt. He evidently thought himself hot stuff. — Basil Copper

Follow the yellow brick road. — E.Y. Harburg

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. — Nas

You should see what she's wearing, Callie. It's velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana. — Sarah MacLean

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded. — George Carlin

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely. — Vincent Van Gogh

An old man with an ashen face and bulbous yellow eyes, — Teju Cole

All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. — Alexander Pope

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. — Jim Hightower

Memories

Hello, duck,
in yellow

cloth stuffed from
inside out,

little
pillow. — Robert Creeley

Silence isn't always golden; sometimes it's just yellow. — Dorothy Grover Bolton

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road. — Monika Chiang

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill. — Blanche Lincoln

God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow) — Raymond Chandler

Cook him up with some barbecued dog ... cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I box in yellow Gox box socks. — Dr. Seuss

[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae. — Cassandra Clare

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. — Neil Kinnock

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet — Dodie Smith

The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon. — George R R Martin

Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I cannot run, I am rooted, and the gorse hurts me
With its yellow purses, its spiky armoury.
I could not run without having to run forever. — Sylvia Plath

The sun's not yellow, its chicken! — Bob Dylan

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

Walk on your own yellow brick road. If you can't find one, spray paint your way into happiness. If that doesn't work, buy yellow shoes. — Sadiqua Hamdan

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. — T.K. Naliaka

There is no such thing as failure. Everything is a success to whatever degree it is taken. — Morning Sun Yellow Pony

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring. — Wassily Kandinsky

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple. — Paul Ince

Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas. — Pat Condell

Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation. — Tim Heaton

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there. — James Collins

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. — Gore Vidal

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it. — Grace Jones

She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it. — Neil Gaiman

Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again. — Kami Garcia

In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides. — X.J. Kennedy

Yellow usually means it's not that serious. — Bobby Unser

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people. — Immanuel Kant

No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her. — Jane Green

That girl has more cracks in her than the road of yellow brick — Danielle Paige

Into the field of
Yellow flowers
The red setting sun! — Soseki Natsume

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.] — Alexander Pope

He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning. — Philippa Gregory

Do you remember that old song? 'She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini ... — Linda Weaver Clarke

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow ... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night. — Rosemary Clooney

Deborah Mercier couldn't have looked more like a WASP if her coat had been striped with yellow and her eyes had been on the sides of her head. She — John Connolly

He stole a glance at her profile, the soft curve of her nose, the sharp angle of her chin, the glint of yellow gold against her dark earlobe. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Winter is dead. — A.A. Milne

My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash. — Hilary Mantel

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore