Daphne Quotes

#1. To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.

Daphne Sheldrick

#2. Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.

Daphne Guinness

#4. The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee

Daphne Du Maurier

#5. It's about time you guys got here,' Oliver quipped. 'Alexei and I were starting to think you'd gotten lost.' Daphne sniffed. 'Please. We weren't lost. We were shopping.' 'That doesn't make it any better,' Oliver retorted. In fact, I'd say that makes it worse.

Jennifer Estep

#6. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#7. Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. "Let's walk in the garden," she said softly.
"We can't."
"We must."
"We can't.

Julia Quinn

#8. Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.

Daphne Gottlieb

#9. Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

Daphne Koller

#10. The frightening truth about desire
it's on but
i don't know
whether i want
to be
her, fuck her
or borrow
her clothes.

Daphne Gottlieb

#11. The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

Daphne Du Maurier

#12. That woman is hiding something!" she said.
"You think everyone's hiding something."
"And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

Michael Buckley

#13. A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

Daphne Oz

#14. You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings.

Daphne Du Maurier

#15. For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.

Daphne Du Maurier

#16. Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played.

Madeline Hunter

#17. It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?

Daphne Zuniga

#18. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Daphne Guinness

#19. You're an absolute genius! I'm the best Daphne ever!"
"And so humble,too.

Kiersten White

#20. I've been on shows that go for shock value.

Daphne Zuniga

#21. This car had the wings of Mercury, I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#22. There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

Daphne Gottlieb

#23. From the very first, I knew that it would be so ... I smiled to myself, and said, That
and none other.

Daphne Du Maurier

#24. My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Daphne Zuniga

#25. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

Daphne Merkin

#26. Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

Torrey DeVitto

#27. I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

Daphne Guinness

#28. Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

Daphne Oz

#29. I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

Daphne Oz

#30. Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache - the kind that one could almost - but never quite - ignore.

Julia Quinn

#31. So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked.
Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.

Michael Buckley

#32. You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.

Michael Buckley

#33. More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

Daphne Oz

#34. Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.

Daphne Du Maurier

#35. But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,

Daphne Simeon

#36. When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.

Daphne Guinness

#37. I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Daphne Koller

#38. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.

Daphne Du Maurier

#39. When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.

Daphne Du Maurier

#40. I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old.

Daphne Du Maurier

#41. There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed.

Daphne Du Maurier

#42. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,

Daphne Guinness

#43. Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.

Rita Ora

#44. What degradation lay in being young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#45. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

Daphne Kalotay

#46. He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death. He would have to write a poem about this.
from a Difference in Temperament

Daphne Du Maurier

#47. She'd rather go down like a roaring lion than a bleating ram.

Shirlee Busbee

#48. I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

Daphne Du Maurier

#49. I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daphne Guinness

#50. Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

Daphne Du Maurier

#51. One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Daphne Zuniga

#52. You're all wounded and hurt and torn inside.

Daphne Du Maurier

#53. Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered.
"That would be awesome," Puck said.
Sabrina flashed him an angry look.
"Awesome in a terrible, heartbreakingly tragic way," Puck continued.

Michael Buckley

#54. A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.

Daphne Oz

#55. There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

Daphne Du Maurier

#56. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#57. I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

Daphne Guinness

#58. the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air.

Daphne Du Maurier

#59. No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.

Daphne Merkin

#60. If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

Daphne Oz

#61. Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

Daphne Oz

#62. He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.

Daphne Du Maurier

#63. I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Daphne Guinness

#64. Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

Daphne Du Maurier

#65. If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

Daphne Oz

#66. The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.

Dorothea Dix

#67. [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

Daphne Du Maurier

#68. And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

Daphne Du Maurier

#69. There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#70. Your vulnerability is your power.

Daphne Zuniga

#71. The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.

Ronald Hugh Morrieson

#72. An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal.

Daphne Du Maurier

#73. Daphne: You're the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself
Maxon: Knowledge isn't love..

Kiera Cass

#74. The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

Daphne Du Maurier

#75. I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

Daphne Du Maurier

#76. I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

Daphne Oz

#77. You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

Daphne Zuniga

#78. If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#79. I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

Daphne Oz

#80. saying Daphne was a worrywart was like saying soccer players' legs were a thing of jaw-dropping, panty-melting goodness. It was just a fact of life.

Avery Flynn

#81. The routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

Daphne Du Maurier

#82. Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#83. Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

Daphne Zuniga

#84. Negativity is mind pollution!

Daphne Blake from Be Cool Scooby-Doo!

Hanna-Barbera

#85. Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book.
And I had to call him Maxim.

Daphne Du Maurier

#86. I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me too many people wrote in England, too many people had ideas.

Daphne Du Maurier

#87. Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

Daphne Guinness

#88. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Daphne Zuniga

#89. No person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

Daphne Du Maurier

#90. She laughed because she must, and because he made her;

Daphne Du Maurier

#91. I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Daphne Oz

#92. I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Daphne Guinness

#93. The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

Daphne Oz

#94. My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Daphne Oz

#95. Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

Daphne Oz

#96. You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I

Daphne Du Maurier

#97. I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

Daphne Oz

#98. When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Daphne Zuniga

#99. Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

Daphne Oz

#100. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

Alexander Pope