Top 100 Did You Ever Quotes
#1. Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit know, deep down, that all lives intersect.
Mitch Albom
#2. If you have a good product. You don't need to advertise. You've done drugs? Did you ever see them advertised?
Doug Stanhope
#3. Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?
George Gobel
#4. Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
E. M. Forster
#5. That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?
Carter Dickson
#6. Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football.
Jon Gruden
#7. It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.
Brad Pitt
#8. Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
Jodi Picoult
#9. Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?
Nicholas Sparks
#10. Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?
Luigi Pirandello
#11. If you stop loving someone, did you ever love them? If you say you're committed and later you're not committed, well, was the first thing commitment? You see what I mean? This kind of thing has always interested me.
Tim O'Brien
#12. Gentle reader, did you ever feel yourself snubbed? Did you ever, when thinking much of your own importance, find yourself suddenly reduced to a nonentity? Such was Eleanor's feeling now.
Anthony Trollope
#13. Errands of mercy
errands of sin
did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#14. Did you see the frightened ones,
Did you hear the falling bombs,
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.
Good bye blue skies.
Roger Waters
#15. Did you ever wonder what a human life is worth?
Ruta Sepetys
#16. Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
Rose Macaulay
#17. Did you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen at birth?
Cherise Sinclair
#18. He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks she named it."
"This is not my mother's bra." Rain clamped her jaw shut defiantly, then demanded to know, "How did you ever see my mother's underwear?
Sandra Hill
#20. Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?
Herman Melville
#21. Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once when she is seduced of her husband.
James Jones
#22. Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
Robert Orben
#23. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard
#24. Did you ever thing, Bryntastic, that I might want to be friends?" he whispers close, so close to me I feel his breath on my neck ... "That I remember the girl who used to love laughing? Who used to blush all the time? The first girl I ever danced with?
Nyrae Dawn
#25. Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.
Maureen Lipman
#26. world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater
Patricia Highsmith
#27. Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?
Tom Bodett
#29. Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby
#30. Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world.
George R R Martin
#31. Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?
Ellen DeGeneres
#32. You clean and organize; you demand perfection - did you ever wonder why?
John Eldredge
#33. Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner
#34. [Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#35. Energy is the language spoken by your body. You probably already know that your brain sends bioelectric signals to your organs and muscles through the nerve pathways in your body. But did you ever consider how your brain talks to your cells?
Ilchi Lee
#36. Did you ever do something and right after, you think, "Did that really happen?" Or you can't even remember what happened? Hmmmmmmmm.
Art Hochberg
#37. Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.
James Tiptree Jr.
#38. Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story.
"I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission," Michael said.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#39. There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#40. Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?
Alisia Compton
#41. Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
Aldous Huxley
#42. Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
Myrtle Reed
#43. A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
#44. Did you ever think" ... "That Keenan didn't fall because he was being punished?" ... "Maybe ... " ... "Just maybe he fell because he was favored.
Cynthia Eden
#45. Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can't stop because you're ... because-
Megan Abbott
#46. When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.
Robert A. Heinlein
#47. Did you ever stop and think that maybe you were supposed to survive? That maybe, it wasn't just Damen who saved you? And
Alyson Noel
#48. Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?
Haruki Murakami
#49. Did you ever have a dream?" he asked. "Something you wanted so badly and just when you think you're about to reach out and grabit, something else takes it away?
Nicholas Sparks
#50. If you identify life with enjoyment I am told there is better brand of it in the cities than in the country parts and there is said to be a very superior brand of it to be had in certain parts of France. Did you ever notice that cats have a lot of it in them when they are quite juveniles?
Flann O'Brien
#52. Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#53. Jesus Christ, really? How did you ever survive living with me as long as you did without having sex every other hour?" "With God's aid alone," he said seriously. "It was a terrible time." "Just
R. Lee Smith
#54. Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.
Olivia Goldsmith
#55. Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Leigh Hunt
#56. Daniel?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?"
"No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
Ann Brashares
#57. Did you ever feel happy in church?" "Naw. I didn't want to. Nobody but poor folks get happy in church." "But you are poor, Bigger."
Again Bigger's eyes lit with a bitter and feverish pride. "I ain't that poor.
Richard Wright
#58. There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff.
Elizabeth Noble
#59. I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
Max Fisher
#60. Quickly look down, now you tell me, when you were little did you ever imagine that you'd be wearing those shoes? Mind blowing isn't it?
Neil Leckman
#61. Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
Benny Hill
#62. There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?
Bruce Lee
#63. Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Margaret Mitchell
#64. I will not serve with oathbreakers and murderers.
[Jaime, Inwardly] Then why did you ever bother putting on a sword?
George R R Martin
#65. Did you ever wake up with an erection ... and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"
Zach Galifianakis
#66. Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?
Richard Bach
#67. Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed?
Edgar Cayce
#68. Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair?
R.A. Salvatore
#69. Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?
Kit Reed
#70. Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.
Neal Shusterman
#71. Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?
Peter Lerangis
#72. Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?
Georgia O'Keeffe
#73. Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader.
Ann Patchett
#74. Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.
Mu Xin
#75. Did you ever read one of her Poems backward, because the plunge from the front overturned you? I sometimes (often have, many times) have - A something overtakes the Mind.
Emily Dickinson
#76. Here is another one ready to die for you, Roland. What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?
Stephen King
#77. Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#78. Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm ... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.
John Raese
#80. Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#81. Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."
No, I'm not," said Ani.
Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?
Shannon Hale
#82. Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy
#83. Sometimes, what's so right turns out to be wrong. And sometimes what's so wrong turns out to be right. Did you ever think it may be time to just go with the flow?
Charles F. Glassman
#84. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?
Dave Eggers
#85. Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
Andy Rooney
#86. My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.
I nodded mutely.
'That's a bit what giving birth is like.
Marian Keyes
#87. You have heard, no doubt, those tales in which the souls of the dead are said to walk abroad, but did you ever hear tell of the soul of a living person walking, split asunder from its mortal body?
K.B. Goddard
#88. Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?
Adriana Trigiani
#89. How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
Elizabeth Marie Pope
#90. Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
Bill Watterson
#91. Did you ever hear
Of the frolic fairies dear?
They're a blessed little race,
Peeping up in fancy's face,
In the valley, on the hill,
By the fountain and the rill;
Laughing out between the leaves
That the loving summer weaves.
Frances Sargent Osgood
#92. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
Shirley Hazzard
#93. Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
Gary B.B. Coleman
#94. Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?
Audre Lorde
#95. Once we're out of the Wood ... , I said, but my voice died in my throat. I felt odd and sick. Did you ever get out of the Wood, if you'd been in it for twenty years?
Naomi Novik
#96. Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.
Harriet Jacobs
#97. Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?
Lisa Kleypas
#99. Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?
George Gobel
#100. Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?
Anne Tyler
