Top 1200 Purple Rain Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

My house really is purple and yellow and hot pink and light green and orange.

And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

We did the opening tailgate party - I'm not a big football person - and it started to rain. I was a little sick and went back to the hotel where we were all staying. We didn't know whether Prince was going to go on or not because the rain got so bad. He had already prerecorded it just in case he couldn't go on. So I'm sitting there wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle and hot tea, and he goes on and it's the most magical thing I have ever seen.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

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

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.

My name itself is extremely campy. Violet Chachki literally translates to purple doodad.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.

First of all, Vickie's wearing purple. She looks like Barney.

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.

When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

I think purple is the only color that suits me most.

Andrew Strauss captained me through my purple patch.

Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

I'm really into jujitsu. I'm a purple belt. I love it. It's a big part of my life.

I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.