Periwinkle Quotes

• It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  People, Black, Gold

  Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “The Changeling Sea”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Peace, Flower

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• En 1957, "West Side Story" había introducido el musical en el temerario lado oscuro de la vida adolescente; "Bye Bye Birdie", ambientado en Sweet Apple, Ohio, donde los ciudadanos aparentemente visten sobre todo de color chartreuse, malva, naranja, bígaro y turquesa, era un paseo por el lado luminoso.

  John Lahr

  Adiós, Dulce, Oscuro

  "Can't Stop the Beat" de John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. 26 de octubre de 2009.

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• Es mi fe que cada flor
  disfruta del aire que respira.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Flower, Air

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.341

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• Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Sweet, Flower

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.397

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• Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
  The periwinkle trails its wreath;
  And 'tis my faith that every flower
  Enjoys the air it breathes.
  
  The birds around me hopped and played,
  Their thoughts I cannot measure;
  But the least motion which they made,
  It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
  
  The budding twigs spread out their fan,
  To catch the breezy air;
  And I must think, do all I can
  That there was pleasure there.
  
  If this belief from heaven be sent,
  If such be Nature's holy plan,
  Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Primavera, Flor, Hombre

  William Wordsworth, “Written In Early Spring”

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• They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

  Gillian Flynn

  Yellow, Exhausted, Weak

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• No tengo ni idea de cómo sabe cuándo le necesito. Podemos pasar semanas sin hablarnos y entonces, cuando mi humor azul amenaza con volverse negro, aparece y me dice que mi humor es azul índigo cerúleo cobalto bígaro y, de repente, el azul no parece tan oscuro, sino más bien el color de un cielo radiante al mediodía. Él trae el sol.

  David Levithan

  Oscuro, Azul, Color

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• Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.

  Allen Lacy

  Drug, Important, Madagascar

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• I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Doors, Hands

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

  Victoria Moran

  Cuffs, Boots, Fabulous

  "Veg & the City: When Compassion Is in Fashion" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'

  John Mayer

  Girl, Mean, Color

  "Las mejores interpretaciones de películas de terror excelentemente aleatorias", por Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. 27 de octubre de 2015.

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• Yes! We finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the public by companies like Enron, Global Crossing, and Tyco we finally got the ring leader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.

  Jon Stewart

  Leader, Fraud, Terror

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• Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Reason, Made

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.341

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• La vida es como una caja de lápices de colores. La mayoría de la gente es de las cajas de 8 colores, pero lo que realmente buscas son las cajas de 64 colores con los sacapuntas en la parte de atrás. Yo me considero una caja de 64 colores, aunque me faltan algunos.

  John Mayer

  Color, Gente, Falta

  "Las mejores interpretaciones de películas de terror excelentemente aleatorias", por Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. 27 de octubre de 2015.

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• My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Names, Purple, White

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails examined. If I happen to find one during my walk on Nobska beach tomorrow morning, a century of well nurtured negative evidence will collapse in an instant.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Beach, Morning, Science

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