D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Descobrimos o futuro no passado e ambos fazem parte de um todo.”
Source: Children of Dune
“Desconcertante
Hermoso como una novia es el mundo.
Pero ten cuidado: pues nadie podrá casarse con esta desconcertante.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
Source: The Dermis Probe
“Desconfiemos. El pasado tiene un rostro : la superstición, y una máscara : la hipocresía. Denunciemos el rostro y arranquemos la máscara.”
Source: Les miserables
“Desconfía de tu deseo, sea cual sea. Desconfía de tu identidad, sea cual sea. La identidad no existe sino como espejismo político. "El deseo no es una reserva de verdad, sino un artefacto construido culturalmente, modelado por la violencia social, los incentivos y las recompensas, pero también por el miedo a la exclusión. No hay deseo homosexual y deseo heterosexual, del mismo modo que tampoco hay deseo bisexual: el deseo es siempre un recorte arbitrario en un flujo ininterrumpido y polívoco.”
Source: El deseo homosexual / Terror anal
“Desconozco el motivo, pero siempre me han importado sobremanera las historias de amores inconclusos, truncos, fracasados. No sólo los propios, sino también los ajenos. Siempre me han conmovido con su osamenta descomunal de esperanzas dilapidadas, de palabras perdidas, de paraísos negados para toda la vida.
Ha de tratarse, supongo, de una innata tendencia a la nostalgia, una suerte de fatal y estúpida simpatía por los tristes y los derrotados. A tal punto son así las cosas que difícilmente una historia de amor merece tal nombre, a mi juicio, si tiene otro desenlace que el dolor, la distancia y el silencio.”
Source: Te conozco, Mendizábal y otros cuentos
“Descopeream că lumea avea multe înfățișări care se negau una pe cealaltă și că nu era nimic altceva decât un mănunchi de puncte de vedere reciproce care se cuprindeau succesiv.”
Source: Din voia Domnului
“Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.”
“Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.”
“Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses...white
Wordless Butterflies”
Source: Japanese Haiku
“Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.”
Source: Small Island: A Novel
“Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.”
“Describe the shape of his face. Round, square?"
"Rectangular, I suppose, with a cleft chin."
"We're not at the chin yet."
"Well, pardon me," he retorted, stung by her snippy tone.
She tilted her head and drew a deep breath.”
Source: Lord of Fire
“Describe your perfect man who looks like me.”
“Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.”
“Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.”
“Describe your street. Describe another street. Compare. Make an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will become of each of the objects you take out. Question your tea spoons. What is there under your wallpaper? How many movements does it take to dial a phone number? Why? Why don’t you find cigarettes in grocery stores? Why not?”
Source: Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
“Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
“Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.”
“Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.”
“Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about.”
Source: A Young Admirer
“Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.”
“Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.”
Source: In a Sunburned Country
“Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.”
“Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.”
“Describing my sexual history and scope of experience; am surrendering; in conclusion an epic failure
'I'm a master at setting people off...of this it may continue...”
“Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.”
“Describing Ostend oysters: "small and rich, looking like little ears enfolded in shells, and melting between the palate and the tongue like salted sweets.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most people want a partner 'who is mature and intelligent, loyal and trustworthy, loving and attentive, sensitive and open, kind and nurturant, competent and responsible.' No matter the intensity of this desire, she concludes: 'Few of us evaluate a prospective partner with the same objectivity and clarity that we might use to select a household appliance or a car.' To be capable of critically evaluating a partner we would need to be able to stand back and look critically at ourselves, at our needs, desires, and longings..... We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking then no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Describing politician stupidity is like trying to catch a slippery fish in a bucket - you know it's there, but it's hard to get a grip on!”
“Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.”
“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.”
“Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.”
“Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.”
“Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.”
“Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.”
“Describing the process of making her decision to leave, Patricia said: “It is as if there is a shelf where all your doubts and misgivings are placed while you are in that group. Over the months or years you observe so many things that may conflict with your original beliefs and values, or you see things done by the group or leader that are just not right. Because of the indoctrination and not being allowed to ask questions, you just put it on the shelf. Eventually, the shelf gets heavier and heavier and finally just breaks, and you are ready to leave" (p. 55).”
Source: Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships
“Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.”
Source: Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
“Describing the USA health care system as mediocre is being generous.”
“describing what it's like describing believing that the sum is "yes”
Source: Spiels of a/d'un Minuteman
“Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.”
“Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.”
“Describir es explicar algo de forma detallada y ordenada. La descripción puede ser completa o incompleta, pero nunca puede ser contradictoria. Estas definiciones no son válidas cuando no hay orden preestablecido en el objeto observado. No se puede describir el caos. Acaso tampoco aquello que resulta aberrante a los sentidos." (La casa hiperbólica)”
“Descriere
"Spre sfârșitul anului 2015 am terminat de scris o carte. Am început-o în anul 2013. Sufletul mi-a cerut să aștern pe hârtie o poveste despre oameni. Despre puterea lor de a iubi, despre capacitatea lor de a lupta cu suferința, despre forța lor de a-și construi destinele.
Un volum care este de fapt o călătorie prin lume cu ajutorul cuvintelor. O călătorie care ne va conduce într-un final spre adevărul din noi înșine…!
Această carte m-a făcut să mă înțeleg mai bine. Atât pe mine, cât și pe cei din jur. Acest volum a fost un elixir care m-a făcut mai bun. M-a făcut mai atent! M-a făcut mai conștient! Așa cum ar trebui să fim cu toții, în fiecare zi a vieții. Fără excepţie!”
Source: Și frunzele ascund emoții
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
“Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.”
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Description may require the study of individual documents which thereby stimulates examination of informational value: those actors, factors, or features populating the documentary landscape.
R. E. Stansfield-Cudworth, ‘Archivists and Historians: Perspectives on the Place of Historical Research in Archival Practice’ (2015), pp. 30–1.”
“Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.”
Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors
“Description of hell - Earth”