D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.”
Source: The revolution of everyday life
“Down with boredom. It has to go.”
“Down with Dukes of Hazzard!”
“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us”
“Down with the Miserable Moneygrumps ™!”
Source: The Cinchy Saver: How to Get Financially Fit and Escape the Miserable Moneygrumps
“Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”
“Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!”
Source: Entwined
“Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.”
“Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers are also twice as likely to visit a branch as their primary transaction method, which contributes to higher overall satisfaction levels. Multiple convenient locations and extended operating hours in supermarkets positively increase customer perceptions of convenience for Downey.”
“Downfall of a man is never his final destiny.”
“Downgrading someone who has been through hell and hot water with you for someone who hasn't done anything to uplift you has an outstanding outcome.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 3
“Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.”
“Download autotune and everybody is a singer, download midjourney and everybody is a painter, download chatgpt and everybody is a writer. This is not innovation, it is fraud, and those who practice it, are the lowest form of animals on earth.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.”
“Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.”
“Downloading songs is not good.”
“Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.”
“Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.”
“Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.”
“Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.”
“Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.”
“Downstairs, Angelina rummaged through Mrs. Capuccio's refrigerator and found some pumpernickel bread, the end of a smoked pork roast, and a half a pound of Swiss cheese. She started thinking of the kinds of food she'd miss making most if she were stuck in bed most of the day, and she immediately thought deli. She cruised the refrigerator shelves and found some India relish, which she mixed together with a bit of ketchup and mayonnaise to make an improvised Thousand Island dressing. When she found a little can of sauerkraut in the cupboard, she knew she had a winner. She cooked up a Reuben sandwich in a cast-iron skillet, brewed a strong cup of tea with two sugars and a drop of milk, and brought it up to the room on a tray with some dill pickle slices on the side.”
Source: Angelina's Bachelors
“Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.”
“Downstairs, she thought, they are polishing the silver, and rummaging the cellar, and dusting the halls. She could hear them living all through the house.
"It's all right," whispered Great-grandma, as the dream floated her. "Like everything else in this life, it's fitting."
And the sea moved her back down the shore.”
“Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.”
Source: White Cat
“Downstream is always someone else's up.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.”
“Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place where you see the bigger picture of the city's social fabric. It's also a place where you see all the contradictions of having all these layers, classes, and differences at the same time. And this is also where they clash, and where they negotiate. They negotiate their demands, their tastes, the lifestyles they want to have. So it's a very interesting space. I think that Downtown has maintained that identity before, during, and after the revolution.”
“Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn't fit it into anything and that was the point.”
“Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.”
“Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.”
“Downward social mobility.
We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease of moving upwards.
What's less discussed is how easy it is to go down. I think that's the direction that we're all heading in. And I think that the downward fall is gonna be very fast.
Not just for us as individuals, but the whole preppy class.
Just look around. Take those of our fathers who grew up very well off.
Maybe their careers started out well enough but just as their contemporaries really began to accomplish things, they started to quit, or rising above office politics, or refusing to compete and risk open failure.
Or not doing the humdrum part of the job. Or only doing the humdrum part.
Or gradually spending more and more time on something more interesting — conservation, or the arts — where even if they were total failures no one would know it.”
Source: Metropolitan: A Novella and Three Stories
“Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?" "Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere.
Reality is a lovely place but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
“Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.”
“Dowry is lifetime gang rape against women and dowry is lifetime prostitution against men”
“Doyle: "What is it now, then?"
Cordelia: "Isn't java supposed to be a coffee?"
Doyle: "Ready to abandon the the Web project?"
Cordelia: "No way. We have a chance here to make contact with the millions of people out there who are glued to their computers."
Doyle: "All those millions, shunning human contact. I'll never understand it. Call me old-fashioned, if you like, but I want to interface with a face, not a hunk of plastic and glass."
Cordelia: "Climb out of the Dark Ages, Munchkin man."
Doyle: "It's leprechaun, and either way, I don't appreciate the insult.”
“dozens and dozens of memories: some good and some bad, but the greater part of them complicated, like most things in life.”
Source: The City Beyond the Sea
“Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.”
“Dozens of books. I wonder if she’s read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life.”
Source: Never Never: Part Two
“Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'”
“Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.”
“Dozens of shiny brass wall sconces created the sort of dim and atmospheric lighting I'd only ever seen in old movies and haunted houses. And the room wasn't just darkly lit. It was also just... dark. The walls were painted a dark chocolate brown that I vaguely remembered from art history classes had been fashionable in the Victorian era. A pair of tall, dark wooden bookshelves that must have weighed a thousand pounds each stood like silent sentinels on either end of the room. Atop each of them sat an ornate brass, malachite candelabra that would have seemed right at home in a sixteenth-century European cathedral. They clashed in style and in every other imaginable way with the two very modern-looking black leather sofas facing each other in the center of the room and the austere, glass-topped coffee table in the living room's center. The latter had a stack of what looked like Regency romance novels piled high at one end, further adding to the incongruity of the scene.
Besides the pale green of the candelabras, the only other color to be found in the living room was in the large, garish, floral Oriental rug covering most of the floor; the bright red, glowing eyes of a deeply creepy stuffed wolf's head hanging over the mantel; and the deep-red velvet drapes hanging on either side of the floor-to-ceiling windows.”
Source: My Roommate Is a Vampire
“Dozvolićete, ali kada čoveka upucaju, teče krv.”
“Doía-me a vida, doía-me a vida que em ti se negava, a vida a gastar-te, ainda que a amasses, a vida a derrubar-te, ainda que a amasses.”
Source: Morreste-me
“Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba «las lecturas que toda señorita debe leer y que nadie quiere que lea». Doña Lorena decía que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. «Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas». Durante la guerra la metieron en la cárcel de mujeres y dijeron que se había ahorcado en su celda.”
Source: El laberinto de los espíritus
“Dođi,
da pogasimo telefone,
dok ti u mom, a ja u tvom
zagrljaju punimo baterije.”
Source: Mir More Ljubav