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 I did to the last guy that called me Tinkerbelle?"
"Slept with him?"
Darryl was silent for a second. "After that.”
Source: Shattered Glass
“Do you know what I do sometimes? I look at buildings or up at the sky and because their plain features look like they could be from anywhere, I imagine I’m in your city. That we’re next to each other. That I’m somewhere different. If I want, I can be in New York at any time of the day and really believe it. It only lasts for a few seconds before I get dizzy.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie”
“Do you know what I hate about fashion designers? They are so clothes-minded.”
Source: Gags and Extracts
“Do you know what I have in my heart? I have hope. And I'll share it with the world.”
Source: Heart on Fire
“Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.”
“Do you know what I mean by a music-maker? It's something quite different from a performer, you know. Different from someone who goes on a platform to demonstrate -- often very successfully -- how accomplished he or she may be. It means someone who serves the great art of music with heart and soul, as well as fingers and brain. It takes everything... to make the real thing. Above all, there must be that desire to serve, rather than to impress. To be humble rather than easily satisfied with oneself.”
Source: Child of Music
“Do you know what I remember? When [my father] read to me. Stupid things, dragons and heroes. He wouldn’t turn a page until I reached over and took his hand. That big man made every step of the story my choice. I loved that. He died of the wasting, in a Denerim ward. Those last weeks I read to him. I had to take his hand to turn the pages. And I couldn’t tell if he was too weak, or if it was the old game…No one tells you how to mourn. And when someone says, “move on”, you take their hand and say “my choice.”
“Do you know what I see when I look at that screen? I see the white space between the letters and words. I search for patterns that aren’t there. I see a lot of the little marks that tend to blur together. I see an uphill battle. And I’m exhausted just by looking at it.”
Source: Phantom Reality
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.”
Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)
“Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.”
“Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?”
“Do you know what I've noticed?" asks Peter. "Whenever I have a particularly shitty day, it's surprising how often a drone is waiting at home with some great product to cheer me up again."
"I'm glad you're satisfied with my service," says the drone. "Please rate me now."
"An acquaintance of mine says that these things don't happen by chance," says Peter. "She says that the people who write the code--or perhaps I should say: the people that have the code written--want us to be happy, because frustration is unproductive. Dangerous, even.”
Source: QualityLand
“Do you know what I want from you?” she heard him ask hoarsely. “Do you understand what’s going to happen if we don’t stop?”
“Yes.”
Matthew lifted his head and gave her a doubtful glance.
“I’m not as innocent as you might think,” Daisy said earnestly. “I’m very well read.”
He turned his face away, and she had the impression he was fighting a smile. Then he looked back at her with piercing tenderness. “Daisy Bowman,” he said unevenly, “I’d spend eternity in hell for one hour with you.”
“Is that how long it takes? An hour?”
His reply was rueful. “Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.”
“Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.”
“Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.”
“Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.”
“Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.”
“Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.”
“Do you know what irony is, de Leon?
They make swords out of it, don't they? Mix it with coally and hit it with a hammery?”
Source: Empire of the Vampire
“Do you know what is an important part of the sport for me?
It is giving an opportunity to myself to play it, what is your?”
“Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.”
“Do you know what is God? – Life power undergoing various changes in the process of yoga as depicted, gets up in the Cerebrum – This is God.”
“do you know what is lonelier than never having anyone? It is believing you had someone, but then it turns out that the person you thought was your closest friend never was.”
Source: Macbeth
“Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.”
“Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.”
“Do you know what is remarkable about human nature? It is astonishingly, remarkably, and unyieldingly resilient! … A person, this indestructible virus of life, stubbornly sprouts like a brazen spring blade of grass through asphalt, lifts its head, and smiles.”
Source: The Ghost of Grimoire Castle
“Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.”
“Do you know what is the most painful thing about loneliness? Memories. Memories of good old days haunt you day in and day out, hurting you without bleeding. You die of internal weeping”
“Do you know what is the thing that makes you lose the most in life? The doors you are afraid to open, the steps you are afraid to take!”
“Do you know what is truly magnificent? One tear, which is falling down from an authentic sensitive person's eye. Down the cheek and adorns the floor.”
Source: Pavilion of Thoughts
“Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every night,
of all your past mistakes.
Knowing sleep will set it right -
if you were not to wake.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'”
“Do you know what it is that boosts her cooking the most?"
"Erm... her strength, which lets her handle even bone-in meat as she will?"
"That is an asset, yes.
But her highest skill is exactly the opposite of power...
it's her sensitivity.
The lips are a part of the body that are particularly sensitive to heat.
However, only hers are sensitive enough to tell the exact temperature.
But Ikumi Mito's sensitivity shines brightest when she handles the meat with her hands.
Watch her fingertips.
Do you see the delicate grace with which she touches it?
She is like a pianist, tickling the ivories in an elegant solo.
It is a sonata of meat.”
Source: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 2
“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”
“Do you know what it is to be lonely? Truly alone, even amidst a crowd? Even in a family?”
Source: A Lullaby for Witches
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.'
It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.”
Source: The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
“Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.”
“Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?”
Source: Night Watch
“Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?”
Source: The Pact
“Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.”
Source: The Pact
“Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.”
“Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.”
“Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.”
“Do you know what it's like to be the kind of girl that boys never talk to and then suddenly, a boy talks to you?”
“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before