Famous quotes containing the words color, desert and/or pattern:
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is a very true and expressive phrase, “He looked daggers at me,” for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)