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 it's like to love and be alone?”
“Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.”
“Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.”
“Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources.”
Source: Wieża Jaskółki
“Do you know what lives in the present moment? Joy. It’s not in the past, not in the future, not in endless "have to, should do, must do", and not in daydreaming. Joy is here, now.”
Source: Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life
“Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
Source: The Looking Glass War
“Do you know what made me fall in love with you?" George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. "I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish class that first day. I couldn't see you. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom. And I had to hear it again.”
Source: The Sparrow
“Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.”
“Do you know what makes someone beautiful? Confidence. You don't have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips. No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway. You can have every kind of blemish. It's confidence that attracts people. That's what everybody's looking for. It's what no potion can really give you. And believe me, Belle, you've got it. You've got it if you want it.”
Source: Another Faust
“Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.”
“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”
“Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That’s what you are, what defines you—dying.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That’s what you are, what defines you—dying. And yet here you stand, determined to oppose me even as you rot away from the inside out, you corrupt, corrosive mortal creature. Tell me how that is. Do you really think you can win against me? Against a prince of Faerie?
- Cardan Greenbriar”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.”
“Do you know what my biggest fear is?"
Ashley shook her head.
"It's not making an impact," I said. "Time is just passing by, and if I don't figure out how to make a difference right now, then before I know it I'll be old. I'll have done nothing of any worth.”
Source: No Good Deed
“Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.”
Source: Fever
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
“Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.”
“Do you know what my favorite type of revenge is? Happiness. Because it has nothing to do with revenge and everything to do with happiness.”
“Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?”
“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.”
“Do you know what passion is?”
I blink, confused.
“Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that’s not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.”
Source: Release Me
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.”
“Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.”
“Do you know what people want most?
Something somebody else has.”
“Do you know what philanthropist means?” Libby asked me seriously. “It means rich.”
Source: The Inheritance Games
“Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.”
Source: John G. Lake On Healing
“Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”
“Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.”
“Do you know what resonance is?'
'Resonance?'
'It's as though one person sounds a bell in their heart, and if the other person has the same bell inside them, it rings too.'
'I see,' he said to her reflection.
'So,' she continued, 'that's how you can recognise something in someone, even if you know nothing about them.”
Source: Panenka
“Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.”
“Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She went to the market and left all the breakfast dishes there and said she'd do them later. I know what she wanted. She expected me to do them. Well, I'll fool her. I'll leave them just where they are.”
“Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?”
Source: The Exorcist
“Do you know what strength is - forgetting sleep, romance, money I keep working without rest to unite the humans, that's my strength - a single mother working day and night so her child can have a bright future, that's her strength - a street vendor working hard since dawn for his family, that's his strength. Do you have such a strength of your own? Your ancestry, your family money, your material possessions - putting aside all these, what is your own true strength?”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Do you know what surprised me most when I came to this country? The way witches are glorified. People here dress up as us for Halloween. They fill their TV shows and social media profiles with our aesthetics. It's like they've forgotten that, for most of human history, witches were something to mutilate, not emulate. Women who were seen as outcasts—too queer, too brown, too unwell...Any one of us on the margins was a target. To me, a pointy hat and a broomstick are not a cute costume; they are a reminder that, for centuries, people were brutalized under the mere assumption they might be what we actually are.”
Source: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem
“Do you know what that is, Snow? A flaming pyre, set adrift in the sea. We could do yours in Blackpool, so all your chavvy Normal friends can come.”
Source: Carry On
“Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It's like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated - and of course, nobody reports that, either.”
“Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'”
“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”
Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland
“Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.”
“Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?” he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. “It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.”
Source: Teller
“Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space where shadow meets light ... that borderland of dreams and death, and death and life. No door is closed against us. No secret can defy us. We exist in every world, every universe, every possibility. We cannot be denied, not even by the dead.' We are magnificent, Ren Mormorian. We are fucking glorious.”
“Do you know?
What the fuck do women want?
l know what you want: everything.”
“Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.”
“Do you know what the greatest risk of attacking evil is? It's turning it into a victim, making people forget its past wrongdoings, and even causing them to feel sympathy for it!”
“Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.”