- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green Quotes
On backstage nostalgia, golf greens, and green ambitions.
These quotes use 'green' in unexpected ways—a nostalgic backstage green room, a golf green sized up from the rough, and a Midwestern upbringing near Green Bay recalled fondly. See our nature quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I let the players use their abilities and what they're capable of doing. If they're capable of stealing bases, I'm going to give them the green light. I'm going to teach them to pick their spots and to get a base when they can get a base.
- Tea
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- Nov 07, 2020
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020