Top 100 Denise's Quotes
#1. Denise's first thought on seeing her blood stain Spade's lips was "oh shit". Then the fire that leapt into his gaze and the way he dominated her mouth in his next kiss made her decide that self-preservation was overrated.
Jeaniene Frost
#2. You start screaming. The screams are in Denise's voice, in your father's voice, in the voice of an innocent little girl, in voices you don't recognize and never will. You
Mike Allen
#3. She was grinning and she should have been pretty when she grinned. She had good white teeth and a lovely, delicate mouth. But something always went wrong with Denise's smile. There was always something manic in it.
Jack Ketchum
#4. The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.
Denise Levertov
#5. I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
Denise Mina
#7. The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things ... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.
Denise Richards
#8. Hell is the opposite. It's cold and stark and full of nothing. And I'm there now.
Denise Grover Swank
#9. No matter what roller coaster ride we're on, the safety bar of God's character keeps us secure. Grab hold and don't let go.
Denise K. Loock
#10. I learn to affirm
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder ...
Denise Levertov
#11. As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.
Jeaniene Frost
#12. God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!
Monica Denise Brown
#13. Grey is the price
of neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
Denise Levertov
#15. Because as long as you know the rules, you know what's expected of you, and as long as you have the necessary information, you can always find the answer.
Denise Grover Swank
#16. Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude
D. Denise Dianaty
#17. Kind of like getting married." I smiled at him. "It's easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don't.
Denise Grover Swank
#18. If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don't have a choice there. They can't decide not to fight.
Denise Flaim
#19. Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
Denise Mina
#20. Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.
Denise Duhamel
#21. Every day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can't imagine living to the next day, and some tragically don't. And there's nothing virtual about that.
Monica Denise Brown
#22. Through the hollow globe, a ring
of frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the world's edge?
Denise Levertov
#23. It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.
Denise Richards
#24. Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.
Denise Juneau
#25. Because right now, leaning against Kenny's counter, he was fully, painfully erect, for maybe the first time in months.
He backed away and tried to think about something else - anything else. Losing his job, his mother's cat, Denise - oh, there you go. Limp as a politician's moral code.
Amy Lane
#26. It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.
Denise Levertov
#27. Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.
Denise Vasi
#28. The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.
Monica Denise Brown
#29. If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.
Denise Van Outen
#30. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do and not worry about what others think. You don't have to take ownership of other people's Drama.
Denise Mansfield
#31. This here's war, and sometimes there's casualties. You hope to God not to be one, but you go in accepting the risk. Especially if something's worth fighting for.
Denise Grover Swank
#32. I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.
Denise Di Novi
#33. It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
Denise Morrison
#34. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
Denise Mina
#35. Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
Denise Levertov
#37. I put the wine bottle on the counter and reached for a couple of wine glasses. "Would you like some? It's a fine vintage stock. I'm pretty sure it was on the shelf of the Piggly Wiggly for at least two weeks.
Denise Grover Swank
#38. Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead
Denise Austin
#39. Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
Denise Mina
#40. That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity ... That Monica died in Samoa
Monica Denise Brown
#41. There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
Denise Mina
#43. What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China.
Denise Grover Swank
#44. As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.
Denise Duhamel
#45. It's putting the aesthetic of a design before the function of a design. Those two things need to be in balance. Something can look beautiful and read beautifully but those two things need to be in balance. If a design is in the way of the actual communication, it's ten times worse.
Denise Bosler
#46. What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.
Denise Jaden
#47. Cat rescue is like a virus," says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable.
Denise Flaim
#48. I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.
Denise Flaim
#49. Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
Denise Levertov
#50. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.
Denise Levertov
#51. Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.
Denise Mina
#52. Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.
Denise Austin
#53. At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.
Denise Scott Brown
#54. Blue bead on the wick,
there's that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god.
Denise Levertov
#55. The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.
Denise Mina
#56. That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and like, tea bags. And that's really it. Because I eat in my sleep.
Denise Vasi
#57. I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Denise Levertov
#59. Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place!
Denise Walter McConduit
#60. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#61. Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.
Denise Levertov
#62. I think there's something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we're in a generation where we're accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that's the most important part.
Denise Bidot
#63. She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. "Maybe I like picket fences." "I don't know, maybe it's the way I met you but assault rifles and picket fences seem juxtapositioned.
Denise Grover Swank
#64. Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.
Denise Linn
#65. The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.
Denise Levertov
#66. My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014)
Denise Baer
#67. Fire seemed about ready to shoot out of her eyes. "Yeah, he's changed all right. He used to be a snake in the grass, and now he's slitherin' out in the open.
Denise Grover Swank
#68. The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
Denise Di Novi
#69. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.
Denise Grover Swank
#70. Why did Meridith have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she just give him a chance? He knew they'd be amazing together. She'd opened her heart to the kids, admirably so. It couldn't have been easy accepting her father's other children, but she'd done it. Why couldn't she open her heart to him?
Denise Hunter
#71. A blind man. I can stare at him
ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
No, he is in a great solitude.
O, strange joy,
to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
No, my thirst is greater than before.
Denise Levertov
#72. Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.
Denise Van Outen
#74. come home tomorrow. Getting back to Maeve's was tricky. There was a new
Denise Grover Swank
#75. Beauty isn't perfect. It's something to be felt and something to be breathed.
Denise Jaden
#77. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina
#78. I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.
Jan Denise
#79. I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.
Denise Bidot
#81. People tell themselves there's plenty of time to do it all, but most of the time they never see death coming.
Denise Grover Swank
#82. One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
Denise Di Novi
#83. Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
Denise Mina
#84. I glance at the sky, but there are no clouds. There are never clouds. I know what clouds look like only because of the digital images in our lessons at school. I know someone who has been north, to the mountains, and swears she saw clouds. Perhaps she's telling the truth, but I doubt it.
Denise Getson
#85. You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.
Denise Mina
#86. I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
Denise Richards
#87. Focusing on a person's positive attributes is an incredible way to give love.
Denise Coates
#88. I think it's incredible what you can find with just a quick trip down to your local library
Denise Hemphill
#89. My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.
Denise Mina
#90. what's wrong with being different? Sometimes it's good to stand apart from everyone else.
Denise Grover Swank
#91. Denise Donatelli is a musician's singer!
Phil Woods
#92. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.
Denise Grover Swank
#93. I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.
Denise Duhamel
#94. People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
Denise Mina
#95. Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I
Denise Grover Swank
#96. He thought of their kiss - had it really been two days ago? The image of Zac's kiss barreled into his mind. When everyone had filtered into the dining room for cinnamon rolls, Beau had confiscated the mistletoe. If anyone was getting another kiss from Kate, it was going to be him.
Denise Hunter
#97. To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
Denise Mina
#98. In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
Denise Mina
#99. Her dad shows up, and instead of getting mad at Denise, he wraps his arm around her and helps her to his car like she's crippled. I could've crippled her. Missed my chance.
Darynda Jones
#100. That's about as effective as a windshield wiper on a goat's ass.
Denise Tompkins
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