Yellow Quotes

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun. (Pablo Picasso)
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. View quote
Jim Hightower
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Follow the yellow brick road. View quote
Yip Harburg
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at... View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. View quote
William Butler Yeats
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. View quote
Heinrich Heine
A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. View quote
William Wordsworth
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! View quote
Lord Byron
Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow. View quote
Fran Drescher
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. View quote
Pam Grier
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. View quote
Frank Zappa
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
Already in 1915, Sophie Taeuber [his wife] divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly [as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period]. She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue. View quote
Jean Arp
We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right. View quote
Joseph Lowery
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. (George S. Patton)
As a young child Audrey Carsons wanted to be writers because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. View quote
William S. Burroughs
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game. View quote
Larry Bird
Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died, Do not weep. War is kind. View quote
Stephen Crane
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play! View quote
Matthew Arnold