I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. – H. G. Bissinger
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
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it’s 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn’t kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy’s camel-hair coat. – James Rosenquist
I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple. – Bryce Dallas Howard
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
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. – Dave Grohl
Despite the fact that he’s been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft’s work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations. – Ellen Datlow
If you’re going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like ‘Purple Rain’ and ‘Thriller’ and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds. – Dave Sitek
We want Iowa to remain red. We have worked so hard to get here. We will not be a purple state: we will be a red state. – Joni Ernst
I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone. – Joni Ernst
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action. – Jim Webb
I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing – it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane. – Ozwald Boateng
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. – Rudyard Kipling
I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote… a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for. – Shiloh Walker
‘The Color Purple’ is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. – Steven Spielberg