Almagre Quotes

#1. Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.

Terry Pratchett

#3. She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Marian Keyes

#6. If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Nick Vujicic

#7. We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

Rachel Cohn

#8. He burned as if with fever, and she burned for him.

Grace Draven

#9. Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Steve Jobs

#10. I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'

Lizzo

#11. That the death of God involves the death of Man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.

Terry Eagleton

#12. Socrates asked the key question:
why should we be moral?

Arundhati Roy