Top 100 Almond Quotes
#1. Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond
#2. The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
Marc Almond
#3. Not believing in yourself will cause you to miss out on life and waste your life.
Janice Almond
#4. A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.
Marc Almond
#5. You must live in peace," he told us. "We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark.
David Almond
#6. Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone.
David Almond
#7. This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.
Steve Almond
#8. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
Claire Messud
#9. I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.
Marc Almond
#10. Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
David Almond
#11. All of us can do what we like."
"No we can't. You're stupid if you think so.
David Almond
#12. I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.
Marc Almond
#13. After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery.
Mary Pickford
#14. I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.
Marc Almond
#15. There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
Steve Almond
#16. I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem!
Brandi Chastain
#17. more 27 and 53,'i said. 'Food of the gods,' he said
David Almond
#18. Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.
Mina
David Almond
#19. I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
Steve Almond
#20. The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
David Almond
#21. They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.
Lemony Snicket
#22. As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
Marc Almond
#23. Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
Marc Almond
#24. I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.
Marc Almond
#25. I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
Marc Almond
#26. Her blue, almond-shaped eyes - now even more elongated - had altered in appearance; they were indeed of the same colour, but seemed to have passed into a liquid state. So much so that, when she closed them, it was as though a pair of curtains had been drawn to shut out a view of the sea.
Marcel Proust
#27. Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.
David Almond
#28. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.
David Almond
#29. We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.
David Almond
#30. After I clean my face, I use combinations of sweet-almond, meadowfoam, grape-seed, coconut, black-currant, and argan oils to hydrate. Argan is probably my favorite for my face.
Isabel Gillies
#31. If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.
Marc Almond
#32. All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Steve Almond
#33. Howidoono?" Dee tries to ask, but there's a mound of Brown Butter Almond Brittle ice cream on her tongue. "How did you know I needed this?" He gives her an "oh please" look. "I have a sister and a girl best friend. This is not amateur hour.
Emery Lord
#34. People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.
Marc Almond
#35. People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.
Mark Almond
#36. Time's Flying," said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. "There it is, flying past! Catch it!" And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again.
"There it goes," she called. "Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!
David Almond
#37. We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves.
Steve Almond
#38. I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?
Marc Almond
#39. And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!
David Almond
#40. Timeless and versatile, Toasted Almond is an organic shade that speaks to authenticity and all that is natural.
Leatrice Eiseman
#41. This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.
David Almond
#42. I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.
Heather Mitts
#43. But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.
H.M. Jones
#44. Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.
David Almond
#45. This might be heaven!
We might be living in heaven right now!
And we might be the angels!
David Almond
#46. The reason Americans favor milk chocolate over dark is because Milton Hershey got his bars into enough American mouths to establish our collective taste.
Steve Almond
#47. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.
Steve Almond
#48. When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond.
John Steinbeck
#49. Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.
Marc Almond
#50. She has never listened to Deepak Chopra, switched to almond milk, or meditated. Yet she is here, in the chair by the window in the house she was born in, outliving her husband and siblings and nephews and friends.
Lena Dunham
#51. I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
Valerie Simpson
#52. When Willie was a baby, he used to look into the soft almond eyes of his black-gold mother and in those reflecting mirrors of life and the world, he saw that the earth was a splendid lovely planet.
Thomas S. Klise
#53. The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.
David Almond
#54. Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
Marc Almond
#55. They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.
David Almond
#56. I grabbed it and held it to my face and there,God,yes.Her smell.The lilac shampoo and the almond in her skin lotion and benneath all of that the faint sweetness of the skin itself.
John Green
#57. You're my best boy. Whatever happens, you'll always be my best boy.
David Almond
#58. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound
Amira Aly
#59. I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
Kaley Cuoco
#60. 20a. What You Should Be Writing About
Anything you can't get rid of by other means.
Steve Almond
#61. I think of him dreaming of being married to Kim and of tractors and harvesters and conferences in nice country hotels while my dreams are filled with war, with snakes, with bloody wounds, disaster and death. I keep feeling blood trickling over my skin.
David Almond
#62. Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
Tristram Stuart
#63. In the end she just said ... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!
David Almond
#64. I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.
Marc Almond
#65. He narrows his eyes.
"Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.
David Almond
#66. Words are too easy," he says.
He opens his book. "What looks like truth and sounds like truth might be nothing but a dream, nothing but a story I wish had happened.
David Almond
#67. It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond
#68. The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
Steve Almond
#69. Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth.
David Almond
#70. Strikingly tall, broad, a thick head of silky chestnut hair, olive skin and beautiful almond shaped eyes. His was a strong face, masculine, powerful. I disliked it greatly.
Samantha Young
#71. That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
Marc Almond
#72. ... writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.
Steve Almond
#73. I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.
Marc Almond
#74. My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
David Almond
#75. Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.
Eloisa James
#76. If you're wondering if you're a collector, ask yourself two questions. Do I own too many records? Do my friends and family feel I own too many records? If your respective answers are No and Yes, you're a Collector.
Steve Almond
#77. Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?
David Almond
#78. THERE CAN BE FEW delights in the world as pleasant as a Siracusan spring. The fragrance of the lemon, orange, apricot, almond and peach blossoms pervade the city, enriched by the moist, salty sea breezes. On
Tariq Ali
#79. Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.
David Almond
#80. Israel's journey from Egypt to Canaan is peppered with strange events: the earth swallows a clan, almond blossoms sprout from a rod, and a donkey opens its mouth to argue with a wayward prophet. Who says the Bible is dull?
Preston Sprinkle
#81. As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
Jodi Picoult
#82. How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?
David Almond
#83. If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it.
David Almond
#84. Breathing in her clean, sweet scent was like unexpectedly finding almond cookies. So fucking sweet.
Cherise Sinclair
#85. I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.
Marc Almond
#86. Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
Edwin Arnold
#87. The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens.
Steve Almond
#89. We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
Marc Almond
#90. We need books ... because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
Steve Almond
#91. My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
Marc Almond
#92. The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
David Almond
#93. Mum has made a little model of Dad - it looks nothing like him, of course, at least not when I compare it with his photographs, but somehow it seems to be more like him than the photographs do.
David Almond
#94. I made a creativity out of that messiness.
Marc Almond
#95. There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said.
David Almond
#96. I closed my eyes and tried to discover where the happy half of me was hiding. I felt the tears trickling through my tightly closed eyelids. I felt Whisper's claws tugging at my jeans. I wanted to be all alone in an attic like Skellig with just the owls and the moonlight and an oblivious heart.
David Almond
#97. I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.
Timothy Ferriss
#98. My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore ... hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
Errol Flynn
#99. Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
David Almond
#100. I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs.
David Almond
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