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“Doc, this faux confidence is the only reason I'm still standing.”
“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. But when the tide goes out the little water world becomes quiet and lovely. The sea is very clear and the bottom becomes fantastic with hurrying, fighting, feeding, breeding animals. Crabs rush from frond to frond of the waving algae. Starfish squat over mussels and limpets, attach their million little suckers and then slowly lift with incredible power until the prey is broken from the rock. And then the starfish stomach comes out and envelops its food. Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. And black eels poke their heads out of crevices and wait for prey. The snapping shrimps with their trigger claws pop loudly. The lovely, colored world is glassed over. Hermit crabs like frantic children scamper on the bottom sand. And now one, finding an empty snail shell he likes better than his own, creeps out, exposing his soft body to the enemy for a moment, and then pops into the new shell. A wave breaks over the barrier, and churns the glassy water for a moment and mixes bubbles into the pool, and then it clears and is tranquil and lovely and murderous again. Here a crab tears a leg from his brother. The anemones expand like soft and brilliant flowers, inviting any tired and perplexed animal to lie for a moment in their arms, and when some small crab or little tide-pool Johnnie accepts the green and purple invitation, the petals whip in, the stinging cells shoot tiny narcotic needles into the prey and it grows weak and perhaps sleepy while the searing caustic digestive acids melt its body down.
Then the creeping murderer, the octopus, steals out, slowly, softly, moving like a gray mist, pretending now to be a bit of weed, now a rock, now a lump of decaying meat while its evil goat eyes watch coldly. It oozes and flows toward a feeding crab, and as it comes close its yellow eyes burn and its body turns rosy with the pulsing color of anticipation and rage. Then suddenly it runs lightly on the tips of its arms, as ferociously as a charging cat. It leaps savagely on the crab, there is a puff of black fluid, and the struggling mass is obscured in the sepia cloud while the octopus murders the crab. On the exposed rocks out of water, the barnacles bubble behind their closed doors and the limpets dry out. And down to the rocks come the black flies to eat anything they can find. The sharp smell of iodine from the algae, and the lime smell of calcareous bodies and the smell of powerful protean, smell of sperm and ova fill the air. On the exposed rocks the starfish emit semen and eggs from between their rays. The smells of life and richness, of death and digestion, of decay and birth, burden the air. And salt spray blows in from the barrier where the ocean waits for its rising-tide strength to permit it back into the Great Tide Pool again. And on the reef the whistling buoy bellows like a sad and patient bull.”
Source: Cannery Row
“Doch das Glück hat viele Gesichter und geht verschlungene Pfade. Es zeigt sich jedem in anderer Gestalt. Ein Universal-Glück, fix und fertig in Flaschen abgefüllt, gibt es nicht. Und manchmal liegt es beim Unglück gleich nebenan.”
Source: Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Henry N. Brown
“Doch dass sie sich keinen Weg mehr vorstellen konnte, bedeutete nicht, dass es keinen Weg gab. Es gibt unendlich viele Wege außerhalb des Vorstellbaren.”
“Doch dein Tod ist mein Stimmbruch.”
Source: mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte
“Doch der springende Punkt all dieser Serien, das, worauf sie immer zusteuern, wird leicht übersehen: Sie enden damit, dass ausnahmslos alle ihrer Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten Partnerinnen und Partner finden, Familien gründen und sich Leben aufbauen, in denen die vormals gefeierten Freundschaften nur eine untergeordnete oder gar keine Rolle mehr spielen. Die während der Serie hoch gehaltenen Codes und Regeln der Freundschaft gelten zu ihrem Ende nicht mehr, wenn ihre Heldinnen und Helden im sicheren Hafen traditioneller Liebesbeziehungen angekommen sind.”
Source: Allein
“Doch dieses Mal war Lerio nicht schnell genug. Er hatte losgelassen und zwei Schritte gemacht, als der Panther schon herumgewirbelt war und sich auf ihn gestürzt hatte. Die Luft wurde ihm aus den Lungen gepresst, als die viel größere Raubkatze ihn halb unter sich begrub und ihm die Zähne in den Nacken presste. Warmer Atem strich über seinen Hals und Lerio erstarrte.”
Source: Emanio - Der Schöne und das Biest
“Doch erst als Zacharias drei Schritte vor und an seinem hünenhaften Vordermann vorbeitrat, erkannte er die Ursache für ihre Angst.
Allerdings sah das Orakel in Zacharias’ Augen nicht im Geringsten furchteinflößend aus, nur ungewohnt. Die Magischen besaßen eine andere Knochenstruktur als sie, sodass leicht der Eindruck entstehen konnte, etwas wäre mit ihren Gesichtern und Körpern nicht richtig. Ihre hellen Augen leuchteten, wenn sie Magie wirkten. Irritierend empfanden die meisten auch das Fehlen jeglicher Augenbrauen, während die übrige Körperbehaarung mit der der Menschen identisch war. Trotz aller Ähnlichkeiten war eine Verwechselung beider Rassen ausgeschlossen. Zusätzlich zu ihrer Fähigkeit, Magie zu wirken, hatten die Magischen eine Lebenserwartung von mehreren Tausend Jahren.”
Source: Prophezeiungen für Jedermann
“Doch Iani schwieg und hob stattdessen nur beide Hände. Verschiedenfarbige Lichter stiegen von seinen Handflächen auf, tanzten über den Fingerspitzen und formten sich zu kleinen und dann zu immer größeren phantastischen Wesen. Zacharias hielt inne, wie verzaubert starrte er auf die bunten Figuren.
»Dies ist einer der Zauber, die ein Magischer als Erstes lernt«, erklärte Iani, während Zacharias weiter auf die wilde Magie blickte und nicht imstande war, auch nur einen Funken Furcht oder Abscheu zu empfinden. »Licht. So rein, so simpel … aber der Zauber dient nicht der Erfüllung Ihrer Queste. Ich habe ihn allein zu Ihrer Unterhaltung gewoben und um Ihnen etwas zu zeigen. Verstehen Sie, was das bedeutet?«”
Source: Prophezeiungen für Jedermann
“Doch im Augenblick, in dieser Minute, wohnte dem Ort unleugbar eine schlichte, tief sitzende Schönheit inne.”
Source: The Target
“Doch reicht es, wenn ich in meinen romantischen Beziehungen oder Freund*innenschaften Verantwortung übernehme? Reicht es, wenn ich nur in diesen Verhältnissen daran interessiert bin, Machtgefälle und patriarchale Hierarchien zu beseitigen, aber außerhalb dieser Beziehungen anderer Menschen - insbesondere weibliche Personen, Lesb*innen und Queers - weiter erniedrige und ausbeute? Reicht es, wenn ich eine gute Freundin bin, aber eine unsolidarische Arbeitskollegin?”
Source: Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
“Doch zittre vor der langsamen,
Der stillen Macht der Zeit.
Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.”
“Docility is the observable half of reason.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“Dock-a-loodle-fod!"
Now that the memory problem was solved, there was only the dyslexia to worry about.”
“Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.”
“Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.”
“Doctor Andrey Yefimitch, of whom we shall have more to say hereafter, prescribed cold compresses on his head and laurel drops, shook his head, and went away, telling the landlady he should not come again, as one should not interfere with people who are going out of their minds.”
“Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen”
“Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid”
“Doctor Ehsan Pourshirazi, DDS is a dental implant expert in California and Phoenix, Arizona.”
“Doctor Gilyard was right, Juliet and I do have a lot in common. She lost her mother, I lost my mother. She lost her father, I lost my father. She had to start again, I had to start again. She had to pretend to be someone else, I had to pretend to be someone else. But where she was better for it, I was worse. Where she used what happened to make her stronger, I held on to it. I let it distil into something filthy and black. And I hated her for that.
Hated her.”
Source: Heart-Shaped Bruise
“Doctor: Have you considered that your health issues are in your head and you may need to see a psychiatrist? Patient (Silently): Have you considered that you are an incompetent that is in the wrong profession?”
“DOCTOR, I AM NOT SICK! I JUST LOST MY MOTIONS!”
“Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict”
“Doctor … I’m going mad; the final complete flip, it’s swooping down out of the hills at me!” He had only smiled, condescendingly and therapeutically. “No, Leland, not you. You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It’s become almost impossible for you to ‘go mad’ in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently ‘went mad’ and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now”—And I think he even went so far as to yawn—“you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard. Another thing: all of you have a talent for releasing frustration through clever fantasy. And you, you are the worst of the lot on that score. So … you may be neurotic as hell for the rest of your life, and miserable, maybe even do a short hitch at Bellevue and certainly good for another five years as a paying patient—but I’m afraid never completely out.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“Doctor, I'm no coward; no, not I—not so much! If I was I wouldn't say it.”
Source: Treasure Island
“Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.”
“Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.”
“Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.”
“Doctor just told me I can't have kids. I asked for a second opinion. He said, Why? No one's gonna to let you take kids from this hospital.”
“Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.”
“Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.”
“Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think is that despite this historical references, Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story.”
“Doctor: Mr. Melo, do you have Time for us?”
“Doctor Not Butcher
(Medical Anthem Sonnet)
We are the Doctors,
Our worship is to the ailing.
We don't bow to politicians,
Nor to bureaucratic bullying.
Service to the sick
is service to the divine.
There is no greater divinity,
than being a human lifeline.
We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.
Dead doctor postpones death,
Living doctor improves life.
While butcher doctors monetize malady,
To empower life, real doctors strive.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget that.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“Doctor’s fees are heavy, lawyer’s fees are high,
Artists are just supposed to entertain and die!”
Source: আবার যদি ইচ্ছা কর
“Doctor's Sonnet
A doctor is one who's gentle as a bird,
A doctor is one who's brave as a soldier,
A doctor is one who's amusing as a clown,
A doctor is one who's caring as a mother.
Treating the sick is not a comfort job,
It is a difficult life without leisure and lure.
If all you want are wealth and tranquility,
Trade in your medical license for a liquor store.
The world is filled with doctors most cold,
Many don't practice medicine but self-centricity.
Instruments and intellect don't make a doctor,
Without warmth all pills lose their efficacy.
Healthcare means aid first talk rules later.
Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless monster.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.”
“Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.”
“Doctor, teacher, engineer, our Nishat could be anything she wants to be," Abbu says, clapping me on the back proudly. It's the most he's said to me in weeks, but there's a plasticity to his smile, a solemness to his voice. Nishat can be anything she wants to be, except herself.”
Source: The Henna Wars
“Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"”
“Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...”
“Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.”
“Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.”
“Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.”
“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
“Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'
Bruce: 'Why?'
Doctor: 'How can you move faster then possible, fight longer then possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death.'
Bruce:'I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns. And there's no one there to save it.'
Doctor: 'Then make the climb.'
Bruce: 'How?'
Doctor: 'As the child did - without the rope. Then fear will find you again.”
“Doctor: You need to eliminate your stressors. It's not looking good.
Me: How exactly do I do that when I must see my stressor daily.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player