D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?”
“Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."”
“Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.”
“Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”
Source: AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE
“Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?”
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Do you ever miss me?
The way we held each other close,
What about our history?
Have you blocked out the memory
Of the things that meant the most?”
Source: February Rain: Lyrics of a Lonely Traveler
“Do you ever notice how much you have in common with the person you hate.”
“Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.
“Not if I can avoid it, no.”
Source: Crystal Gorge
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?'
He laughed. 'That's against the law!”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Do you ever read the scriptures?"
"Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel."
She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!”
Source: The Flame Bearer
“Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?”
Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography
“Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.”
“Do you ever sing in the car?" "Generally not. But I am driving a police car." "I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic." "You can talk for a long time about nothing." "I certainly can, you charming man!”
“Do you ever sit back and wonder how and why other people are so successful, productive, or accomplished? What is the driver that inspires them to go for the gold, seize opportunities, and make things happen?”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?”
Source: Safe Haven
“Do you ever stop and think how lucky you are to have failed at certain things? Not to have gotten the job that would have sent you further down the path you later realized was wrong. Not to have convinced that old flame to patch things up and make them work. Not to have won, when losing is what instilled in you the humility to see where you were coming up short, and the determination to grow into a better version of the person you are.”
“Do you ever stop and wonder at all of this?' Kaity asked, gesturing around them while a robot rolled by.
'After what we’ve been through?' her husband said wryly. 'We are, after all, space travelers. We’ve voyaged light-years from Earth, to settle in lands both terrifying and fantastic. Little fazes us anymore...”
“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
Source: A Breath of Life
“Do you ever think about being with someone but realize it's impossible and then get really sad so you bake a pie instead.”
Source: Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
“Do you ever think about having sex with Rosie O'Donnell because you are straight? Same thing.”
Source: The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius
“Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video, outta here!?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!?”
“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.”
“Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.”
“Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" — Edward Cullen”
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.”
Source: White Oleander
“Do you ever wear leather?" the guy asks.
"What?"
"Leather. Do you like leather?"
"It doesn't exactly wipe me out."
"I like to see boys in leather."
I look at him cool. "Okay," I say, "what is it you want and how much are you willing to pay for it?"
"I've got a leather jacket upstairs...Would you put it on?"
"Just put it on?"
"I'll go and get it."
He leaves the horror hole and returns a few minutes later holding a leather flying jacket with a lambswool collar. There are tears in the jacket's sleeves, and the lambswool is yellow with age. John Wayne could've worn it in one of those crappy war films he made. "Put it on," the guy says.
I give him a spiky smile and put on the jacket. "Okay, where's the plane, and what time's take-off?"
"Drop your jeans and turn around.”
“Do you ever wish, Alexis, that your heart was just that little bit smaller, so that you didn't have to care quite so much?”
Source: King of Hearts
“Do you ever wish things could be different?" she asked, fidgeting with her reins.
His heart began to race, a jolt passing through his body as part of him longed to cling to the few shreds of hope he had left. "Sometimes. Do you ever wish that?"
"I feel like I find myself wishing for it far too often lately," she said, her voice so soft that he had to strain to hear it.”
Source: The Betrayer: Tales of Pern Coen
“Do you ever wish things were different?" I ask. "That you and I weren't supposed to be mortal enemies?"
"What good does wishing do, Sara?" he says.”
Source: Pestilence
“Do you ever wish you could hear?"
"I can hear. I just listen differently than you."
hardcover page 270”
Source: Hear Me
“Do you ever wonder about that? About the fact that life is coming at us so damn fast? And we’re racing towards it with our heads down, and so we’re so busy running that we won’t even notice when it hits us? I wonder what happens to us when it does. I mean, what if the impact completely annihilates us, and we just disappear into dust without even realizing what happened?”
Source: Chasing Fireflies
“Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?”
Source: Stars of Fortune
“Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn’t really know you?”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?”
“Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado.
Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person.
The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions.
More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Do you ever wonder if the girls who come in here realize they're gonna grow up exactly as fucked as we are?”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.”
“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))”
“Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want... He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I'm not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.”
“Do you ever wonder what life would have been like if you’d said
yes?” said Ridcully.
“No.”
“I suppose we’d have settled down, had children, grandchildren, that
sort of thing…”
Granny shrugged. It was the sort of thing romantic idiots said. But
there was something in the air tonight…
“What about the fire?” she said.
“What fire?”
“Swept through our house just after we were married. Killed us both.”
“What fire? I don’t know anything about any fire?”
Granny turned around.
“Of course not! It didn’t happen. But the point is, it might have
happened. You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have
happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened.
You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have
turned out horrible.”
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?”
“Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?”
Source: Our Dark Duet