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 what 'masturbation' is? I think you probably do because you are older than me. But just in case, I will tell you. Masturbation is when you rub your genitals until you have an orgasm. Wow!”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.”
“Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?”
“Do you know what a corpse lily is, Adonis?"
He glared at her, and didn't speak.
"Do not make me repeat myself, mortal. Yes or no?"
She dropped her glamour, and took a threatening step forward. Adonis' eyes widened, and he wiggled away, wimpering, "No."
"Pity. It is a parasitic flower that smells like decaying flesh. I am sure you are wondering what this has to do with you. It's a wager. If you touch another woman without consent, I will turn you into one."
Adonis went pale but managed to glare at her. "A wager usually implies I get something in return."
She shook her head at his stupidity.
"You do," she said, leaning close, "your life.”
Source: A Touch of Darkness
“Do you know what a fate map is in biology? It’s a map of which cells in an embryo should develop into which specific adult tissues. But what they should develop into isn’t necessarily what they actually do develop into. They can be manipulated, or change on their own, and end up as something completely different from what they were fated for.”
Source: Map of Fates
“Do you know what a foe is? Something or someone that isn’t “fo ya.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“Do you know what a great gift it is that God gave us the right to speak to Him every hour and moment, wherever we are? He always listens to us. This is the greatest honor we have. For this reason we must love God.”
“Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!”
“Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.”
“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.”
Source: A Question Of Loyalties
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
“Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.”
“Do you know what an inconvenience it is to need to find a place to relieve myself everywhere I go?'
A fizzing noise came from Cassian's side of the table, but I clamped my lips together. Mor gripped my knee beneath the table, her body shaking with the effort of keeping her laugh reined in.
Rhys drawled to Amren. 'Shall we start building public toilets for you throughout Velaris, Amren?'
'I mean it, Rhysand,' Amren snapped. I didn't dare meet Mor's stare. Or Cassian's. One look and I'd completely dissolve. Amren waved a hand down at herself. 'I should have selected a male form. At least you can whip it out and go wherever you like without having to worry about spilling on-'
Cassian lost it. Then Mor. Then me. And even Az, chuckling faintly.
'You really don't know how to pee?' Mor roared. 'After all this time?'
Amren seethed. 'I've seen animals-'
'Tell me you know how a toilet works,' Cassian burst out, slapping a broad hand on the table. 'Tell me you know that much.'
I clapped a hand over my mouth, as if it would push the laugh back in. Across the table, Rhys's eyes were brighter than stars, his mouth a quivering line as he tried and failed to remain serious.
'I know how to sit on a toilet,' Amren growled.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!”
“Do you know what artichokes are rich in? A little bitterness component called cynarine.
It's an acid known for messing with the taste receptors on your tongue. In fact, its effects are so pronounced...
... that whatever you taste directly afterwards- even if it's just a cup of pure water!- will seem extra sweet!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 27 [Shokugeki no Souma 27]
“Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.”
“Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.”
“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.”
“Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.”
“Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.”
“Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)”
Source: Mysteries
“Do you know what cools the fiery heart and smashes the rock-hard heart into grains of sand?
It's doubt. Doubt toward yourself.
I must say it's natural. Your heart can't always stay the same. The burning passion you once had disappears and when your body becomes heavy, you start to have worthless thoughts. If that happens, your thoughts tend to flow in a negative direction.
Which is why you shouldn't do it alone, but together.
When you can't believe in yourself try believing in those who believe in you. And later on when their own spirits are crushed, pay them back by believing in them the same way!
When you move forward together you'll be able to do so with more strength!”
Source: The Lazy Lord Masters the Sword
“Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?”
Source: Tears of a Tiger
“Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?”
“Do you know what dreams are like? They are exactly like the past. Both have no existence in the present." Meera smiled.
"Both are lies?"
"No, neither are lies. Both are a reflection of you."
(Outcast Love)”
“Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.”
“Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.”
“Do you know what friendship is?" he asked.
"Yes," answered the girl; "it is to be brother and sister; two souls which meet without mingling, two fingers of one hand.”
Source: Hunchback Of Notre Dame
“Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.”
Source: Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature
“Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat”
“Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.”
“Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.”
“Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details of true crimes bring her to your attention? Did you see the article about her, buried in the chum box of an already disreputable website? Did you see the red-headed stock image model juxtaposed against an edited charred corpse, captioned, "You won't believe what they did to her?" Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Do you have a dark sense of humour? Did that make it okay? Or were they sensitive about it? Did they coo in the right places? Did they give you a content warning? Did you skip ahead? Did you see pictures? Did you look for them?”
Source: Penance
“Do you know what happened to Teacup?”
“Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)”
Source: Dream Chaser: Number 14 in series
“Do you know what happens after you lose the Super Bowl? The world ends. It just stops.”
“Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.”
“Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.”
Source: Key Of Light
“Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“Do you know what holds us back most of the time? It's our own mental models that have been fed with and tainted by misinformation.”
“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.'
I did not know, as I listened to my father's footsteps winding back down the stairs, that he had given me more than the key to this hard moment. I did not know that he had put in my had the secret that would open far darker rooms that this--places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”