D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Do you know how long I was waiting at the airport? Assuming someone in my family would come and get me? Looking at all the cars driving past, and none of them for me?” - J.J.
“Uh . . . ,” Rodney said. “Did you tell anyone to pick you up at the airport?”
“Of course I did!” J.J. exploded. “Do you think I would have just . . . just . . .” He trailed off, his expression changing from angry to thoughtful. “Actually, let me check one thing,” he said,
pulling his phone out of his pocket and scrolling through it. “Huh,” he said after a moment. “You know, looks like that e-mail never made it out of drafts. Whoopsie.” He put his phone back in his pocket. “So hi!” He strode over to us, now smiling. “How’s it going, family?”
Source: Save the Date
“Do you know how long something is in the works before it goes public?" Uncle Henry”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“Do you know how magic works?
The kind of magic that gets reindeer to fly in the sky? The kind that helps Father Christmas travel around the world in a single night? The kind that can stop time and make dreams come true?
Hope.
That's how.
Without hope, there would be no magic.”
Source: The Girl Who Saved Christmas
“Do you know how many 12:13s I've watched pass without you? Tonight it'll be the seven hundred and twentieth," I said, the words burning my throat. "The last thing in the world I want is to say something that makes that number infinite, but I also can't let you erase our history. I don't want to remember the bad parts, but I refuse to forget the good.”
Source: Nothing Like the Movies
“Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border.”
“Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?”
“Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.”
“Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.”
“Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.”
“Do you know how many grand romances would have avoided tragedy if the hero had thought, "You know, maybe I should ask her if she likes me first"?”
Source: Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.”
“Do you know how many men that are out of work that just stand around on the corner just watching your daughters coming home from school? Today, with the hormonal things that they are putting in foods, these hormones, when you eat the meat, you'll find a nine-year-old daughter with breasts bigger than her mother's, hips wider than her mother's - and men haven't got anything to do but sit and watch you go and come from school.”
“Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
“Do you know how many things you destroy just because you're too lazy to stay dedicated to your goal.”
“Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?”
“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.”
Source: Black Hills
“Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes to mans house with the family gathered as witnesses. The virgin and the man share a fire, a meal, and a bed. If the girl wasn't a virgin in the morning, then the couple was considered married. That's it”
“Do you know,
How melancholic it is,
To wake up,
In the middle of the night,
And find your room,
Filled with the fragrance,
Of someone’s
Absent presence!”
“Do you know how miserable condition i got into Nastenka? Now i have to celebrate anniversaries of my former feelings.”
Source: White Nights
“Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?”
Source: Some Kind of Wonderful
“Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.”
Source: My Idea of Education
“Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?”
“Do you know how much I love sunshine? It's like even when I get hurt by the sunburn, I would still be okay to walk outside without any sunscreen. And you are my sunshine!”
“Do you know how much I love you?"
"Even I don't know. My love for you is endless. Deep and endless, like the sea.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much would you save if you decreased your temperature of your house in the winter by one degree, or increase it by one degree? We just don't know these numbers, but I think displays could make it a memorable change in terms of attention, and also help us translate it in terms of concrete ways on what you can get.”
“Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!”
“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”
“Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you do fall, you'll learn everything. If you become successful, you'll learn a bit, but if you fail, you'll get to learn everything. Success is the dumbest teacher, not the other way around”
“Do you know how old I am?”
“I can’t imagine you are any age,” he said. “Just as old as you want to be.”
Source: Until August
“Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?”
“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws”
“DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness... strong people are the ones who can't protect those things.”
“Do you know how powerful you are?”
“Do you know how rare life in the Universe really is? For every populated galaxy, we find dozens more incapable of supporting life. Whenever we encounter a civilization that hadn’t reached the means to travel the stars and accept the existence of other life forms, we protect it and observe its evolution. It’s what’s at the very base of The Union.”
Source: Reshaping Eliza
“Do you know how scary it is for me to say all that?”
Source: The Crown
“Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?”
“Do you know how sick with love I am for you? No… Of course you don’t. All you want to do is get away from me. I revolt you right?”
Source: Redemption
“Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.”
“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Do you know how,
sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,
and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart?”
Source: Invisible Tender
“Do you know how terrifying it is- waiting for something uncertain?”
Source: Refuge
“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”
“Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Do you know how to add more beauty to the world? By being compassionate and loving in your part of the world.”
“Do you know how to climb a tree?"
Grace straightened her posture. "Yes, I know how to climb a tree."
"Okay," Carter said skeptically.
"When I was your age, I practically lived in trees."
Grace grabbed hold of the trunk and began to hoist herself up. After New Guinea, this was gonna be easy.
"No offense, but you're not exactly my age anymore," said Carter, amused with herself.
Grace squinted at Carter. Then she looked at the wet tree trunk, then up at the girl who was holding her hand to her mouth to stifle her laughter. Grace was more than confident she could just climb up the trunk, but having been messed with, she decided to show the girl a little something.
Standing under the tree, she squatted, and then stood up, and then down and up again, and on the third time, she crouched down as far as she could, and throwing all her weight upward, arms reaching completely outstretched, she jumped as hard and as high as she possibly could, springing from the ground, and with both hands grasped the limb upon which the girl sat.
With amusement and curiosity, the girl looked down at Grace dangling below by her hands, exposed feet swinging in the mist. 'What is this lady going to do now?'
Shifting her weight, Grace swung herself forward and then back, and then forward again farther and back again farther, and forward again even more, and as she swung back, throwing her weight firmly, she simultaneously lifted herself upward and as she rose parallel to the limb pushed down on it forcefully and with a quick twist of her hips- 'plop'- set herself down right next to the little girl.
"I 'know' how to climb a tree," Grace said.
"Impressive," said the little girl as she raised an eyebrow.
Grace grinned, proud of herself.”
Source: The Orchard
“Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.”
Source: DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING
“Do you know how to forget about an old love? You find a new love. You should completely immerse yourself in it. If that new love is true, then the old love will naturally become part of the past. It's not that you can fall in love with someone new because you forgot the old... It's because you fall in love with someone new that you're able to forget about the old.”
“Do you know how to hide a dead body?”
Source: 3 DOWN
“Do you know how to make a kuku?"
Kuku, a fluffy egg dish with herbs, had numerous varieties. "What kind?"
His mouth tipped up in the corner. "You choose."
Roxannah had learned her first kuku from her grandparents' head cook, a man who hailed from a populous village near the Caspian Sea. He had taught her this recipe, a specialty of his region. Quietly, she collected the ingredients she needed: dill, cilantro, parsley, a bit of fenugreek, barberries, onions, garlic, and chives. Sisy showed her where to find the spices. When Roxannah reached for the eggs, the dairy assistant threw her a filthy look. But he could do nothing to stop her since she was obeying Cook's orders.
The trick to making a good kuku lay in achieving the right balance of herbs and eggs. Sautéing the onions and garlic until golden, she set them aside. In the same pan, she added a touch more butter and fried a large handful of barberries, sweetened with a spoon of honey. Their tangy flavor and ruby-red color would create the perfect topping for the dish.”
Source: The Queen's Cook