Dais Quotes

#1. I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Matisyahu

#2. A voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.

Sarah Dunant

#3. His vision blurred to haze, the sounds of feasting stilled, and from every dark corner, shadows streamed toward him until they reached the dais and formed a pulsing darkness before him. From its murky heart, his dead brother's face, eyes glowing and malignant, stared into his.

Patricia Bracewell

#4. Chris whistled. "Damn. That's hot."
She swatted him. "Yeah, yeah," she dais. But her stomach fluttered. "I'm roasting actually."
"That's not what I-

Mari Mancusi

#5. A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

John Gresham Machen

#6. You'll know you've officially become sleep deprived when you have the unique feeling of being drunk, high, and on a psychiatric hold all at the same time. Some

Dawn Dais

#7. But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

Dawn Dais

#8. The gods damn you, look what you've done! If I want to grow this back, I'll have to endure the most terrifying sex imaginable! Gaahhhhhhh!

Kevin Hearne

#9. My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

Anchee Min

#10. Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.

Frederick Lenz

#11. But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'
It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.

Jennifer Paynter

#12. Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell's talks at the MLA." (loc 4363)

James Hynes

#13. Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Yasmina Khadra

#14. By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

Pat Buchanan

#15. How long do you think this'll last?" ...
"As long as we want it to ... I'd fucking fight for you, Dais. You just have to let me.

Krista Ritchie

#16. Probably still believed that if you wished hard enough you could make the impossible happen.

Jacqueline Woodson

#17. It's all fun and games until you have a bad sports bra that causes your boobs to chafe.

Dawn Dais

#18. (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).

Neil Gaiman

#19. I love you, Dais, because you're the wildest fucking girl with the biggest fucking heart. And without you in my life" - he shakes his head like it's an inconceivable picture - "I'd be the unhappiest fucking guy.

Krista Ritchie

#20. What would she have thought as a teenage girl arranging her artfully wasted limbs against the dais of a highly conceptual sculpture?

Jill Talbot

#21. Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Lisa Gardner

#22. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called The Five Habits of Highly Aggressive Women.

Rick Riordan

#23. I've gained great respect for the Republican leadership. I've gained great respect for many - and I'm going to even say - I mean, in different forms for the people on the dais, in different forms.

Donald Trump

#24. I said honestly. "You can only be formed by your society." I came up with a quote I had heard once: " 'Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'

Cate Tiernan

#25. I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais - the kind Greek husbands are slain in.

Olivia Sudjic

#26. Organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate hiker and climber, spry at sixty. By training she was a wildlife

Neal Stephenson

#27. There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.

Dawn Dais

#28. To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#29. Hearthstone bowed his head in gratitude. He stepped away from the dais, cradling his new pouch o' power like it was a swaddled baby.

Rick Riordan

#30. I am not the only parent in the history of the planet to have their asses handed to them by something they could fit in a purse.

Dawn Dais

#31. It seemed like everyone had someone they could use to make themselves seem better.

Justin Petrone