#purple

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy? ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#purple-heart #war #men

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

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

— Amanda Hocking

#my-blood-approves #pants #purple #wisdom-quote

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#dinner #family #fast #fast food #food

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. ↗

— Alice Walker

#purple

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#cereal #eat #i #milk #purple

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

— Vivienne Westwood

#got #had #hairstyle #i #lipstick

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chair #defies #his #king #larry

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#color #cool #during #front #good

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#around #because #blue #bruise #call