D Quotes
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“Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.”
“Doriha
commands them
not to come
she is arrogant
like young men
who are loved”
“Dorina stava con gli occhi chiusi quando sentì scendere le mani di lui verso i seni...alzò le braccia e gli prese la nuca...tirò l'aria. Livio le affondò la bocca tra il collo e la spalla. Dorina si voltò...gli sbottonò la camicia...scoprendogli completamente il torace. Gli percorse la pella nuda....Si levò il maglione..e scoprì il seno. Livio voleva toccarla. Lei lo prese per i fianchi e lo tirò a sé. Poi gli strinse le braccia intorno al collo. Lui sentì i suoi capezzoli che gli affondavano nella pelle...Le restituì l'abbraccio. Rimasero schiacciati uno all'altro, con la città accesa tutt'intorno.”
Source: La donna di scorta
“Dorina?" Louis Cesare's voice was loud in my ear. The one I had squeezed against the phone, which was squeezed against my sore shoulder, becuase I was using both hands to keep Ray's point in his pants. "The fey, damm it!" I told him. "They're for the fey!" "Which one?" Louis Cesare asked, his voice going velvety soft. "All of them- No Ray! Ray, cut it out!" "All of them?”
“Dorinpa, Dorunpa. Now you can't lie.”
“Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.”
“Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.”
“Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.”
“Doris loves Superman as well.unfortunately, she got knocked down by a van last year, and it was a big, long recovery for her, really. It took about six months, didn't it, before she was fully back to normal. She never gone back to normal. She's got a bionic leg now, which made her twice as fast and twice as stupid. You know, but she's just such good fun. But anyway,like she had a bit of a low point, you know, when she got really fed up, you know, with those stupid lampshade collars, you know, that they have on their head. Ugh, bumping into everything, she was walking about sighing. Ugh, like that, you know, and if you've ever been known or been with the terriers, but that ball of energy,you know, and she wasn't allowed to be for a walk or anything. It was awful. So to cheer her up, I bought her a little Superman outfit for dogs. When you get home, you look online. They are absolutely brilliant. You can get Wonder Woman and Darth Vader, all sorts. They're the funniest thing I have ever seen in my. The front paws, the front legs go in Super man's legs, you know, and it like covers up the paw with these little, red boot things on the bottom. And it comes up and ties around the neck, and there's tube stuff down from the front. So from the front, it's like a tiny, little Superman with a dog's head. And then, on the back there's this cape. So when she trots around, it looks like she's flying! Ah, it's brilliant! And she loves it. I couldn't get it off for about a week. It's honestly, they're absolutely brilliant, you must check it out. So anyway, tonight this is for Doris.”
“Doris was talking about the Orwells, and J.C. was talking about his princess, and asking when the cookies would be done, and neither one was really listening to the other. That's the way all conversations, really satisfying ones, are carried on.”
Source: The Narrows
“Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.”
“Dorjan didn’t know whether to admire the record keeper who’d been added to his family or just call the man odd for his dedication to recording small things.
Some people are record keepers. Lighthouse keepers, for instance. Weather keepers for the almanac. There are organizations with profound record-keeping characteristics such as archivists for arts and history museums, research scientists, political biographers, and the recent Internal Revenue Service which could be up to no good, but what was Rich up to?”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed.
The mischief turned to triumph.
Damn those magic eyes!”
Source: What Remains
“Dormant Twitter accounts are fascinating, because they are like historical fragments. Each tweet is a word sculpture shaped by a moment that has been preserved through time.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“Dorme, meu amor, que o mundo já viu morrer mais
este dia e eu estou aqui, de guarda aos pesadelos.
Fecha os olhos agora e sossega - o pior já passou
há muito tempo; e o vento amaciou; e a minha mão
desvia os passos do medo. Dorme, meu amor --
a morte está deitada sob o lençol da terra onde nasceste
e pode levantar-se como um pássaro assim que
adormeceres. Mas nada temas: as suas asas de sombra
não hão-de derrubar-te -- eu já morri muitas vezes
e é ainda da vida que tenho mais medo. Fecha os olhos
agora e sossega -- a porta está trancada; e os fantasmas
da casa que o jardim devorou andam perdidos
nas brumas que lancei ao caminho. Por isso, dorme,
meu amor, larga a tristeza à porta do meu corpo e
nada temas: eu já ouvi o silêncio, já vi a escuridão, já
olhei a morte debruçada nos espelhos e estou aqui,
de guarda aos pesadelos - é noite é um poema
que conheço de cor e vou cantar-to até adormeceres.”
Source: O Canto do Vento nos Ciprestes
“Dormente formigo querendo fazer algo condizente comigo.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Dormi bambina forte, verrà molto dolore, la strada che percorre lo porta dritto al cuore. Ma tu non disperare, segui il cammin così, le cose che fan male verranno buone un dì.”
Source: La voce degli uomini freddi
“Dormimos ali acordados dias, contentes de não ser nada, de não ter desejos nem esperanças, de nos termos esquecido da cor dos amores e do sabor dos ódios.”
Source: O Eu profundo e os outros Eus
“Dormir es distraerse del universo, y la distracción es difícil para quien sabe que lo persiguen con espadas desnudas.”
Source: The Aleph and Other Stories
“dormir plutôt que vivre”
Source: The Secret History
“Dormir se puede casi en cualquier parte, pero hay que tener un sitio para trabajar. Hasta una novela mala requiere una silla para sentarse y un poquito de intimidad.”
Source: Trópico de Cancer
“Dormir, según se sabe, es el mas secreto de nuestros actos. Le dedicamos una tercera parte de nuestra vida y no lo comprendemos. Para algunos no es otra cosa que el eclipse de nuestra vigilia; para otros, un estado más complejo, que abarca a un tiempo el ayer, el ahora y el mañana; para otros, una no interrumpida serie de sueños.”
Source: Brodie's Report
“Dormir (...) Una nada con respiración por fuera, una muerte leve de la que se despierta con nostalgia y frescor, un ceder los tejidos del al ma al masaje del olvido.”
“Dormir (...) Una nada con respiración por fuera, una muerte leve de la que se despierta con nostalgia y frescor, un ceder los tejidos del alma al masaje del olvido.”
“Dormire è solo una pausa tra una fatica e l'altra.”
Source: Non è mai troppo tardi
“Dormían separados al principio, como si la proximidad les incomodara, pero hacia el alba se inició un movimiento, y despertaron estrechamente abrazados.”
“Dorn exuded confidence, like someone raised in an exclusive Northeastern boarding school; the kind with crested jackets and ties, where teachers lived in fear of their students”
Source: Awakenings
“Dorn smiled, cynically and without warmth. ‘You see, there’s your old problem. You never see any fault in Him. You never push back. You never stop, think, say to yourself – is that sensible?’ He pressed his great, calloused hands together. ‘And now you have this conundrum, the greatest of your existence. You were created to be the embodiment of His will, but we can no longer discover what that is. You are His voice, but He is silent. Can you think for yourself now, captain-general? That is what’s required.”
Source: Magisterium
“Dorne has danced with dragons before, and I would sooner sleep with scorpions.”
Source: The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
“Dorner leaned back in his chair, imagining what might have happened if he hadn’t injected himself. The limbo of sleep, dark and secret— Drowning in the sea of voices. Not waking, not fighting. Letting them storm him without resisting.”
Source: Rin, Tongue and Dorner
“Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way”
Source: Academ's Fury
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,--how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything?
"She sent her love to you."
Nora said: "Stop being nasty.”
Source: The Thin Man
“Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.”
“Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.”
Source: A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning
“Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Dorothy Gale, Princess of Oz, wants a minute of his time. If that’s not good enough, tell him that Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West, will have a minute of his time. If he’s accommodating now, my minute won’t happen unexpectedly in the middle of the night.”
“Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.”
“Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.”
“Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to let Hitler, or even Wagner himself, ruin for her).”
Source: Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
“Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”
Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“Dorothy touched the Tin Man and then sniffed
the air. "He smells so good." "That's his ax. Get it, Axe? Like Axe spray?" Scarecrow quipped.
”
Source: We're Off
“Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard," she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. "Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that it?"
"That's all it is," confirms Glinda.”
“Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.”
“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.”
Source: Larry's Party
“Dort auf den Treppen, auf denen man ganz Wien überblicken kann, schlage ich Emily Dickinson auf und lese über das Niemandsein, über die Wahrheit, die dich wie ein Blitz trifft, und die Lügen, wie Donnerschläge.”
Source: Like water in your hands
“Dort immer noch Abstand wahren zu wollen, wo es nicht mehr nötig wäre, gehört zu den Folgeerscheinungen von Sehnsucht.
وللحنين اعراض جانبيه من بينها...الحرج من رفع الكلفه مع الممكن”
Source: في حضرة الغياب
“dort sur le toit
un chat sans maître
pluie de printemps”
Source: Le chat et moi - haikus
“Dortchen ducked through a gap in the trees, following a winding path to a small grove of old linden trees, their branches hanging with heavy creamy-white flowers. A hedge of briar roses, with delicate pink-white flowers blooming among the thorns, shielded them from the eyes of anyone walking past.
The garden was alive with birdsong. A blackbird looked at her with a cheeky eye, then hopped away to search for worms. The scent of the linden blossoms was intoxicating.”
Source: The Wild Girl
“Dortchen was called the wild one because one day, when she was seven years old, she had got lost in the forest. She had wandered off to a far-distant glade where a willow tree trailed its branches in a pool of water. Dortchen crept within the shadowy tent of its branches and found a green palace. She wove herself a crown of willow tendrils and collected pebbles and flowers to be her jewels. At last, worn out, she lay down on a velvet bed of moss and fell asleep.”
Source: The Wild Girl