Amber Quotes

With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I’ve read his ‘Princes in Amber’ books so often, I know them almost verbatim, so much so that I am now trying to forget them so I can return to them with renewed pleasure.

My dad came to Korea one time, and then he pulls out a whole bunch of my headshot prints. He’s like, ‘Amber, you need to sign all of this for me because all of my friends want these.’ I guess that’s when I kind of realized I was ‘famous.’

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn’t have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That’s why I decided to start Amber House Books.

If a kid disappears, now there’s Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the ’50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.

I like all the ’90s girls – Amber Valletta is so beautiful. I even love all the ’60s models, like Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, they were so cool.

I didn’t expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn’t realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

I’m more of a tough girl, and I’m attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny’s first five books of ‘Amber.’ What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.

My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I’ve done, at the stages I’ve done it, I’ve been a little naive, which brought with it a kind of charm. I did Stella a while ago. It’s now a bit of a classic.

Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn’t blame them, but most of me was hurt.

Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, ‘Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.’

I love the ’40s. I love the ’50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I’m just in love with the cars. I’m in love with all of it.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people‘s lives for the better.

Salamanca is known as La Ciudad Dorada, the Golden City, because it is built from Villamayor sandstone and when the sun reflects on it the city has a warm amber tint. The university, founded in 1218, is the fifth-oldest in Europe and one of the most renowned, judged on a par with Oxford.

I don’t think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.