Purapura Colorful Quotes

#1. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

Ralph Stanley

#3. Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.

Jojo Moyes

#4. Would be simpler
if English
and life
were logical

Thanhha Lai

#5. [G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand our lives, their stories reflect our core values as human beings.

Kate Wright

#6. The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Murray Leinster

#7. So far he's bringing his A-game.

Joe Teti

#8. They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love - as who amongst us is not)

Karen Joy Fowler

#9. Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Kerry James Marshall

#10. Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

Stephen Crane

#11. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.

Andrey Kurkov