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  • So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  • I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

    Art   Fun   Max  
  • Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

  • Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

    Art   Iron   House  
  • Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

  • Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one.

  • I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

    People   Matter   Speak  
    Source: www.newstatesman.com
  • I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

    Morning   Quiet   Failing  
  • When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

    Children   Book   Hands  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

    Stars   Dark   Night  
    Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”
  • My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

    Dream   Country   People  
  • Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

  • The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

    Voice   World   Woods  
    1967 'Stealing Trout on a May Morning'.
  • Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

    Book   Reading   Talking  
    "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
  • Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

    "Dieter Rams at home, 2004". Interview with Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.
  • Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

    Dog   Cities   Oil  
    "Mort". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.
  • Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the warrior King Rajasinghe I also known as Sitawaka Rajasingha, Edirille Rala born in Colombo and baptised Domingo Corea, who returned to the village of his ancestors Atulugama near Sitawaka and turned against the Portuguese.

    Kings   Warrior   Son  
  • Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

  • All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

    Book   Glimpse   Fans  
  • I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.

  • From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

  • As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

  • I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

    Running   Body   Saws  
  • The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.

    Fighting   Giving   Toys  
  • When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  • Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  • My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach

    Views   Arms   Tactile  
    Ryan Knighton (2007). “Cockeyed”, p.73, PublicAffairs
  • No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

  • Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.

    Apples   Salad   Carrots  
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