D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.”
“Drawing on earlier conventional ethnic types in newspapers, theater, literature, photography, and advertisements, the new medium of motion pictures perpetuated them and gave rise to new variants. The overriding negative images of Mexicans and Latinos in general in Hollywood motion pictures became a staple of its earliest western films.”
Source: Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film
“Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.”
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
“Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.”
“Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.”
“Drawing on the wall, or making some mess, is not a big deal. What matters is the intention behind the action. In many cases, the intention is pure.”
“Drawing on the words of Coretta Scott King, I reminded the audience that freedom must be fought for and won by every generation. "It is the very nature of this fight for civil rights and justice and equality that whatever gains we make, they will not be permanent. So we must be vigilant, " I said.”
Source: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.”
“Drawing out yourself life projects, establishing goals, whether in the short, medium or long term, is what gives meaning to our lives.”
Source: MY LIFE IN QUOTES
“Drawing, painting and sculpture partake of the physical world and are sensory, while writing is conceptual. This distinction blurs, however, when one considers that there is pleasure in rhyme, rhythm, and meter, which is musical, somatic, and sensual enough to provoke physical response.”
Source: The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers
“Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have forgotten — and to ensure that you always remember — God is for you. I can’t promise that God will always give you the answer you want. I can’t promise that He’ll answer on your timeline. But I can promise this: He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise. That is who He is. That is what He does.”
“Drawing takes time. A line has time in it”
“Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.”
“Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be smaller the smaller I am. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.”
“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”
“Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.”
“Drawings on caves dealt with one of man's major concerns, that of finding food. Hunting with spears, trapping deer, stalking game with bows and arrows, and spearing fish or catching them in nets are all portrayed with an energy.”
Source: INDIAN FOOD
“Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself.”
“Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."”
“Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.”
“Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“Drawn to it again, she ran her hand down the royal blue sleeve. He wouldn’t know, but like a yellow ribbon around a tree, she’d wear this outfit every day until he returned.”
Source: His Last Text
“Drawn to the oven like bees to nectar, she marched across the room.
Until a butt entered her line of vision. An exceptional butt. Extraordinary, really. Perfectly rounded and muscular. Biteable.
Sloane halted. Suddenly, finding her brother or getting to cupcakes were no longer her top priorities. Time to appease a different type of hunger. One she didn't allow herself to indulge in much because embarrassing the shit out of herself once was more than enough times to last a lifetime. Yeah... but this was different. The owner of the butt couldn't see her, so ogling was allowed.”
Source: A Legend in the Baking
“Drax's first reaction was to lurch forward and tear Meyer's cards out of his hand. He faced them on the table, scrabbling feverishly among them for a possible winner.
Then he flung them back across the baize.
His face was dead white, but his eyes blazed redly at Bond. Suddenly he raised one clenched fist and crashed it on the table among the pile of impotent aces and kings and queens in front of him.
Very low, he spat the words at Bond. "You're a che-"
"That's enough, Drax!" Basildon's voice came across the table like a whiplash. "None of that talk here. I've been watching the whole game. Settle up. If you've got any complaints, put them in writing to the Committee.”
Source: Moonraker
“Drazen’s lips were more than lips; they were the physical memory of myself before I shut out sex to pursue music.”
Source: Beg
“Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that.”
“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”
“Dread and sorrow reaching, in time, into
every reach”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.”
Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
“Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.”
“Dread is anxiety on steroids.”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same, and now it's here. Or should I say, I AM”
“Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.”
“Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.”
“Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.”
“Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.”
“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Dread of night. Dread of not-night.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.”
“Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.”
“Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.”
“Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die”