D Quotes
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“Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.”
“Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.”
“Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.”
“Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you”
“Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.”
“Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'”
“Depending on which flavor of academic scholarship you prefer, that age had its roots in the Renaissance or Mannerist periods in Germany, England, and Italy. It first bloomed in France in the garden of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1780s. Others point to François-René de Chateaubriand’s château circa 1800 or Victor Hugo’s Paris apartments in the 1820s and ’30s. The time frame depends on who you ask. All agree Romanticism reached its apogee in Paris in the 1820s to 1840s before fading, according to some circa 1850 to make way for the anti-Romantic Napoléon III and the Second Empire, according to others in the 1880s when the late Romantic Decadents took over. Yet others say the period stretched until 1914—conveniently enduring through the debauched Belle Époque before expiring in time for World War I and the arrival of that other perennial of the pigeonhole specialists, modernism.
There are those, however, who look beyond dates and tags and believe the Romantic spirit never died, that it overflowed, spread, fractured, came back together again like the Seine around its islands, morphed into other isms, changed its name and address dozens of times as Nadar and Balzac did and, like a phantom or vampire or other supernatural invention of the Romantic Age, it thrives today in billions of brains and hearts. The mother ship, the source, the living shrine of Romanticism remains the city of Paris.”
Source: A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light
“Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.”
“Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.”
“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”
“Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.”
Source: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
“Depending on your point of view, Jersey City was the rose, or possibly the thorn, of the Garden State. It is so far back that my memories are rather vague, but they were my first memories, and this is where I have to start. We lived at 77 Nelson Avenue, behind my parents’ German-style delicatessen, in three Spartan rooms counting the kitchen. Supermarkets were not yet prevalent and the neighborhood general store, grocery store or delicatessen was where most folks shopped for food. It was during the pre-World War II years, when very few people owned cars and the general public did not have the modern means of travel, which we now take for granted. Every item people needed came from a different store, so to go shopping was a daily task of which people were not even consciously mindful. Even if they had a car, they would have to deal with constant breakdowns, poor and frequently unpaved roads, and tire problems. Garage rentals were crowded behind and between buildings. Parking on the street was limited and most people respected the concept that the parking space in front of a dwelling was for the resident who lived there. It was much easier to use the available mass transportation or endure long walks.”
“Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse
“Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.”
“Depending who you ask, the Pen & Pencil is either the oldest press club in America "the place I score coke”
Source: Philadelphia's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the City of Brotherly Love
“Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.”
“Dephile
De-soul me
Here in my
Desolation
Take away
The spark
That fires
The arteries
That drives
The mind
That charges
The fingertips
Compute me
Count me
Then tuck fuck me
Away in
Your green
Locked box.”
“Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.”
“Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.”
“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.”
“Depletion of willpower occurs when the number of actions taken and decisions made throughout the day supersedes the mental energy available.”
“Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.”
Source: The Unnamable
“Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.”
Source: The Lost Fleet: Courageous
“Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.”
“Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.”
“Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.”
Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
“Deploy or die.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.”
“Depois apanhou o regalo, sacudiu-o brandamente, limpou os beiços com o lenço, deu o braço a Luísa, e dizendo ao caixeiro: desculpe, desculpe, levou-a, inerte, passiva, aterrada, semimorta.”
Source: Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
“Depois de ouvir todo tipo de ameaça e declarações degradantes, comecei a perder grande parte da conversa entre os árabes e seus cúmplices americanos, e a certa altura mergulhei em meus pensamentos. Tinha vergonha de que meu povo estivesse sendo usado para esse horrível trabalho por um governo que afirma ser o líder do mundo livre democrático, um governo que prega contra a ditadura e “luta” pelos direitos humanos e manda seus filhos para a morte por esse objetivo: que peça esse governo prega em seu próprio povo!”
Source: Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
“Depois de tanto estresse me encontro em uma perda total de proporção.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Depois de um tempo notei que não foi amor, foi medo da solidão.”
Source: Timeline
“Depois de uma má surpresa, de vermos os nossos planos despedaçados como caos espalhados pelo chão, a vida também nos traz, não o que queremos, mas aquilo que precisamos.”
Source: Amor na Porta da Frente
“Depois de viver já não temo mais nada, além de viver.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Depois do 25 de Abril, por exemplo, tornámo-nos todos democratas. Não nos tornámos democratas por acreditar-mos na democracia, por odiarmos a guerra colonial, a polícia política, a censura, a simples proibição de raciocinar: tornámo-nos democratas por medo, medos dos doentes, do pessoal menor, dos enfermeiros, medo do nosso estatuto de carrascos, e até ao fim da Revolução, até 76, fomos indefectíveis democratas, fomos socialistas, diminuímos o tempo de espera nas consultas, chegámos a horas, conversámos atenciosamente com as famílias, preocupámo-nos com os internados, protestamos contra a alimentação, os percevejos, a humidade, os sanitários, a falta de higiene. Fomos democratas, Joana, por cobardia, pensou ele vendo um bando de rolas poisar num olival, agitar a tranquilidade do olival com o rebuliço do seu voo, tínhamos pânico de que nos acusassem como os pides, nos prendessem, nos apontassem na rua, pusessem os nossos nomes no jornal. E demorámos a entender que mesmo em 74, em 75, em 76, as pessoas continuavam a respeitar-nos como respeitam os abades nas aldeias, continuavam a ver em nós o único auxílio possível contra a solidão. E sossegámos. E passámos a trazer dobrados no sovaco jornais de direita. E sorríamos de sarcasmo ao escutar a palavra socialismo, a palavra democracia, a palavra povo. Sorríamos de sarcasmo, Joana, porque haviam abolido a guilhotina”
Source: Knowledge of Hell
“Depois dos setenta a vida se transforma numa interminável corrida de obstáculos.”
Source: Fim
“Depois que Julie soube que estava morrendo, sua melhor amiga, Dara, querendo ser útil, enviou-lhe o conhecido ensaio “Bem-vindo à Holanda”. Escrito por Emily Perl Kingsley, mãe de uma criança com síndrome de Down, esse texto trata da experiência de ter suas expectativas de vida viradas de cabeça para baixo. Esperar um bebê é como planejar uma viagem fabulosa à Itália. Você compra um monte de guias e faz seus planos maravilhosos. O Coliseu, o David de Michelangelo, as gôndolas de Veneza. Pode ser que você aprenda algumas frases práticas em italiano. Tudo é muito excitante. Depois de meses de expectativa e ansiedade, finalmente chega o dia. Você faz as malas e vai. Várias horas depois, o avião aterrissa. A aeromoça aparece e diz: “Bem-vindos à Holanda”. “Holanda?!?”, você diz. “Como assim, Holanda?? Minha viagem era para a Itália! Eu deveria estar na Itália. Passei a vida toda sonhando em ir para a Itália.” Mas houve uma mudança no plano de voo. Eles aterrissaram na Holanda, e é lá que você tem que ficar. O importante é que eles não te levaram para um lugar horroroso, desagradável, imundo, cheio de pestilência, fome e doenças. É apenas um lugar diferente. Então, você precisa sair e comprar novos guias. Precisa aprender uma língua completamente nova. Você vai conhecer todo um novo grupo de pessoas que nunca viu. Trata-se apenas de um lugar diferente. É mais tranquilo do que a Itália, menos chamativo do que a Itália, mas depois que você está lá por um tempo e consegue recuperar o fôlego, olha em volta... e começa a reparar que a Holanda tem moinhos de vento... e a Holanda tem tulipas. A Holanda tem até Rembrandt. Mas todo mundo que você conhece está na agitação de ir e vir da Itália... Todos se vangloriam sobre a temporada maravilhosa que passaram lá. E pelo resto da sua vida, você dirá: “É, era para lá que eu deveria ter ido. Foi isso que planejei”. A dor disso nunca, jamais, jamais, jamais desaparecerá... porque a perda desse sonho é uma perda muito, muito significativa. Mas... se você passar a vida toda lamentando o fato de não ter chegado à Itália, pode ser que nunca se sinta livre para aproveitar coisas muito especiais e encantadoras que existem na Holanda.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Depois que Nate entrou em minha vida, eu só me pergunto pelo que não tem resposta. Quanto de tempo pode caber numa despedida? E quanto de saudade?”
“Depois, sem forças para sair do buraco, aninhou-se nele o melhor que pôde.
- Esta é para mim... - murmurou. - A dela que lha faça quem quiser.
Escusava de ter medo, afinal...”
Source: Contos Da Montanha
“DEPORT yourself from the coast of negative attitudes and you will give your dreams a lift up from a level of high concentration of repeated failure to an indelible success! God is with you!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.”
“Deporting people from the only country they've ever known is *slightly* worse than sexual masochism, imo.”
“Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.”
“Deposit a million as a token of my love, darling."
"Go on, put your love on a pedestal and proclaim it loudly for the world to hear.”
“Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.”
Source: The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry
“Deposit the currency of time regularly in the recurring deposit account of your passion. How much did you deposit today?”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.”
“depravate sau sfinte, toate suntem egale în moarte.”
Source: The Grace Year
“Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.”
Source: The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man