Top 100 D.s.senanayake Quotes

#1. He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."
Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you off."
The demon raised his brow. "Trust that shit, mancy.

Jaye Wells

D.s.senanayake Quotes #167
#2. Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

Brad Thor

D.s.senanayake Quotes #216
#3. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.

J.D. Salinger

D.s.senanayake Quotes #591
#4. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

Lucy Liu

D.s.senanayake Quotes #615
#5. About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

Billy Corgan

D.s.senanayake Quotes #659
#6. Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman!

Caroline B. Cooney

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1057
#7. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Kat Von D.

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1490
#8. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

D.H. Lawrence

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1535
#9. In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others.

Debasish Mridha

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1558
#10. Fatima's hair, what was left of it, had pulled free of the coil into which she'd put it before striking the match. Her face was now black and shiny, as if an artist commissioned to lacquer the eyes of a statue of

Katherine Boo

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1756
#11. If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens

D.s.senanayake Quotes #1802
#12. I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.

Robert D. Hales

D.s.senanayake Quotes #2034
#13. All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.

Vir Das

D.s.senanayake Quotes #2180
#14. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

D.s.senanayake Quotes #2847
#15. Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

Linda Evangelista

D.s.senanayake Quotes #2919
#16. The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what.

Terry Pratchett

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3107
#17. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.

Yongsoo Park

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3240
#18. The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.

Neal Shusterman

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3354
#19. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

Charles De Lint

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3521
#20. Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Margaret Atwood

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3586
#21. The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

Rhys Ifans

D.s.senanayake Quotes #3874
#22. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Lena Dunham

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4078
#23. If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.

Peter Wisan

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4089
#24. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...

J.K. Rowling

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4191
#25. I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Tony Parsons

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4202
#26. You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, but it doesn't help achieve the desired results. I've seen guys lose buddies, then go off half-cocked, piss fuel running through their veins. Things never turned out well.

Ellen Hopkins

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4532
#27. I'd be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn't sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right now and have a good time, and that's an order!

Joseph Heller

D.s.senanayake Quotes #4971
#28. At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5014
#29. There really was nothing firm, nothing certain. Even here, even at this place where he thought he'd found something permanent - everything could change in a day. Everything could be lost so quickly.

S.J. Kincaid

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5192
#30. Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.

William Faulkner

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5494
#31. He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring, If I were a pervert, I'd be looking for something a damn bit more attractive than you, jackass. And definitely someone that smelled alive.

Rose Wynters

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5758
#32. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

S.D. Lawendowski

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5842
#33. Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."
He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?

Cassandra Clare

D.s.senanayake Quotes #5875
#34. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

D.s.senanayake Quotes #6322
#35. He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

Cristiano Ronaldo

D.s.senanayake Quotes #6516
#36. I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Lou Ferrigno

D.s.senanayake Quotes #6733
#37. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.

S.D. Gordon

D.s.senanayake Quotes #6946
#38. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

Ian Millar

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7278
#39. People who were born in '66 are nearly fifty? I know the show's fifty, but it seems like yesterday. Human years are different. I'd have guessed that Tim was twenty-five for thirty.

Nick Hornby

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7332
#40. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7356
#41. How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe.

Donald Barthelme

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7432
#42. but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

Lemony Snicket

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7773
#43. Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
Sonet56

William Shakespeare

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7859
#44. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Groucho Marx

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7876
#45. Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be unreadable (except by the author).

Nina Stibbe

D.s.senanayake Quotes #7976
#46. I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

Lesley Nicol

D.s.senanayake Quotes #8255
#47. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'

Dennis Hull

D.s.senanayake Quotes #8258
#48. I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

Jason Flemyng

D.s.senanayake Quotes #8507
#49. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

D.s.senanayake Quotes #8708
#50. So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

Steve Martin

D.s.senanayake Quotes #8839
#51. It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,

Jim Leyland

D.s.senanayake Quotes #9171
#52. I really thought I couldn't be a mum. We had tried several times with IVF,, and it hadn't worked and we'd given up in a way. We both thought, 'You know what, that's that. It's not going to happen - let's move on.'

Gurinder Chadha

D.s.senanayake Quotes #9267
#53. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

S.D. Gordon

D.s.senanayake Quotes #9493
#54. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.

Piet Hein

D.s.senanayake Quotes #9785
#55. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

D.s.senanayake Quotes #9933
#56. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10013
#57. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Jimmy Durante

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10075
#58. The man he'd once been wasn't a collection of personality traits. He was the things he knew, the desires of his heart, the skills he had.

James S.A. Corey

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10136
#59. That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back.

Richelle Mead

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10252
#60. If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

Tony Dungy

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10442
#61. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.

Neil Gaiman

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10504
#62. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

David Miscavige

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10634
#63. I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Rose George

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10974
#64. She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov'd.

William Shakespeare

D.s.senanayake Quotes #10999
#65. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.

D.E. Stevenson

D.s.senanayake Quotes #11231
#66. Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

Barack Obama

D.s.senanayake Quotes #11514
#67. I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

Bill Simmons

D.s.senanayake Quotes #11997
#68. There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

Anthony Minghella

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12013
#69. No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?"
"Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation."
"Poor lambs."
"That's not how I'd describe them."
"I was thinking of animal sacrifice."
"Ah. That's closer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12507
#70. Clark Kent doesn't want to be famous. He doesn't want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they'd see that he's just Superman with glasses.

Rainbow Rowell

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12630
#71. I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment."
"I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.

Jeannine Garsee

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12707
#72. I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

Ryan Kwanten

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12733
#73. It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

James D. Watson

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12888
#74. Wouldn't you like to believe you're the center of someone's universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn't matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?

D.A. Rhine

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12905
#75. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies Of Hereford

D.s.senanayake Quotes #12993
#76. Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for. And if we don't get it early enough we panic in case we never shall.

P.D. James

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13089
#77. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

Dennis Lehane

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13251
#78. Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

Chris Guillebeau

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13345
#79. Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.

P.C. Cast

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13646
#80. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13740
#81. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.

Mike Mignola

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13771
#82. I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Christa Miller

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13878
#83. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.

Stan D. Jensen

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13911
#84. It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

Maggie Stiefvater

D.s.senanayake Quotes #13943
#85. I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Laurell K. Hamilton

D.s.senanayake Quotes #14171
#86. If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.

Albert Hammond Jr.

D.s.senanayake Quotes #14243
#87. It you'd only listen to me when I tried to tell you, we'd be all right.

C.S. Lewis

D.s.senanayake Quotes #15259
#88. I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.

Nobu Matsuhisa

D.s.senanayake Quotes #15499
#89. Tell me what you wish for, and if it's any part of my body, your wish will come true at the Regency Hotel in forty minutes." She'd giggled and turned her face to the sunlight. "Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.

C.D. Reiss

D.s.senanayake Quotes #15543
#90. I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

Les Dawson

D.s.senanayake Quotes #15986
#91. But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor.

Dave Wolverton

D.s.senanayake Quotes #15989
#92. Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

Fuzzy Zoeller

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16041
#93. I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

Jeff Shelby

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16343
#94. Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It's already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny.

T.D. Jakes

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16460
#95. The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

Amelia Warner

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16591
#96. You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.

Patrick DeWitt

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16767
#97. What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

Jessica Zafra

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16848
#98. I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.

Luke Evans

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16915
#99. no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like

Rupi Kaur

D.s.senanayake Quotes #16956
#100. As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

Justin Deeley

D.s.senanayake Quotes #17011

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