Quotes About Algiers

#1. This must not be planet earth," Cone told his partner. "This must be hell." But it wasn't. It was just Odessa.

H. G. Bissinger

#2. When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

Sunny Leone

#3. The loves we share with a city are often secret loves.

Albert Camus

#4. If a heart breaks in the forest," she wondered, "does anyone hear?

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

#5. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.

Richard Armour

#6. In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#7. We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

Nate Powell

#8. The Colt rested in her lap. "You better wake up in the morning, Mr. Latimer because I don't want to have to explain a dead man in my cabin to the sheriff."
- Emma in "Emma of Crooked Creek

MK McClintock

#9. The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Richard Wright

#11. The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

Bill Cosby

#12. The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.

Hunter Murphy

#13. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Caroline Norton

#14. Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Marty Rubin

#15. To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

#16. You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

David Bailey

#17. An animated conversation was in progress and the woman behind the counter started airing her views about a murder case that had created some stir in Algiers. A young commercial employee had killed an Algerian on a beach.

Albert Camus

#18. I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Edmund Hillary

#19. The dey of Algiers took the occasion of the War of 1812 to renege on his treaty obligations with the United States;

Adrian Tinniswood