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Blue Quotes

A color that turns up in odd, honest places.

Blue shows up here as currency, as an energy debate, and more than once as blue jeans - praised for their modesty, ease, and quiet appeal. Related theme: Color.

Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Quotes by Roy Barnes

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a...

Quotes by Rose George

I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to audition for the ITV show, 'Popstar To Operastar.'

Quotes by Roland Orzabal

By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

Quotes by Rogier van der Heide

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

Quotes by Roger Stone

I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had...

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

When you act against a blue screen, you have to imagine what's not there.

Quotes by Rodrigo Santoro

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.

Quotes by Roger Andrew Taylor

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

Quotes by Robin Thicke

If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' -...

Quotes by Robert Krulwich

I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it...

Quotes by Robert Cailliau

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Quotes by Rita Dove

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

Quotes by Riley Smith

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

Quotes by Rick Moranis

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Quotes by Rick Perry

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.

Quotes by Richard Branson

One of the color combos that I really love is the tones of technicolor, which older movies would have, these tones of blue and red in them.

Quotes by Reed Morano

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote using "blue" as a color rather than a mood?
Yes: "I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes." It's about blue jeans as a design ideal, not the color's emotional meaning. Color quotes has more on color as a design choice.
Is there a quote about oil and energy policy that mentions "blue"?
Yes, one plays on the idiom "blue in the face": "we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face," arguing that it "will not change the fact that" the country needs more diverse energy sources. This is presented as that speaker's own policy opinion, not a fact this page verifies.
Is there a cryptic quote about blood and money using "blue"?
Yes: "Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new." It reads as a poetic reflection on change, tied loosely to bruising or exhaustion rather than anything literal.
Do any of the quotes repeat the same idea about blue jeans?
Yes, a very similar sentiment about blue jeans as an admired, practical design appears more than once in this collection, with jeans praised for their "expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity."
Where can I find more color-themed or mood quotes related to blue?
Try Color quotes for other color-focused lines, Sadness quotes for blue's classic emotional association, or Calm quotes and Depth quotes for gentler, reflective moods.

If it's mood or atmosphere you're after, Calm and Depth sit close by.