
Top 100 Did You Find It Quotes
#1. I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.'
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since.
Donald Ray Pollock
#2. Lord Macon:"Went for a wee nightly run. Needed peace and quiet. Needed air in my fur. Needed fields under my paws. Needed, oh I canna -hic- explain ... needed the company of hegehogs."
Professor Lyall:"And did you find it?"
Lord Macon:"Find what? No hedgehogs. Stupid hedgehogs.
Gail Carriger
#3. All right, it's a beach. I'm just messing with you."
"It would be funnier if we hadn't spent the last two days trying to hunt down the glitch."
"Did you find it?"
"Yes. The software seems to be submitting fake bug reports. Try to be serious."
"Try to not call me 'the software.
Bryce C. Anderson
#4. God, help me ... did you send her to me? Because it felt like you did. It felt like you put her on this earth to find me and take over my very being with her goodness. I closed my eyes and hoped so.
Shelly Crane
#5. You're gonna find special, Ace."
...
"Sometimes special doesn't exist, Tate," I told him. "And I'm okay with that."
His lips came back to mine and when he spoke, he did it gently. "It will for you baby.
Kristen Ashley
#6. You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#7. I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
Juliet Marillier
#8. Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
Larry The Cable Guy
#9. I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
Harlan Coben
#10. I came to Tasmania in search of an elusive species. And I found it. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find you. And I believe I found a type of butterfly that exists only in my belly which makes itself known when I think of you.
N.R. Walker
#11. How did you find me?" I said, keeping my head ducked.
"It was easy," he said, taking a seat beside me. "All I did was follow the cursing.
Nicole Williams
#12. When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations".
Edward Bernays
#13. Mrs. Bright cut another slice of the rich, dark cake. It was Mindy's fourth, counting dessert at home. But Mrs. Bright's layer cakes were, Mindy felt sure, the best in the world. Where else did you find the layers of icing almost as thick as the layers of cake?
Jane Louise Curry
#14. Truth did not care much about such credentials. It refused to give up and reveal itself just because it realized you were bound to find it eventually. Bean
Orson Scott Card
#15. I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. When Germans start being accurate there's no end to it!
Leo Tolstoy
#16. Finding these events set down in the history book did not change her mind in the least, all the textbook did was collect together the free-flowing fantasies of the person who had written it, and there was clearly little difference between those fantasies and the ones you could find in a novel.
Jose Saramago
#17. I did not agree..to having my article censored ... The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read ... Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.
John Yudkin
#18. Sidonie," he said, his voice strangely hoarse. "You are the most - I mean, you are so ... I find you ... ah, devil take it! Never mind!"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Nothing," he growled. "I misspoke. What did you say about oranges?
Liz Carlyle
#19. Dear Tess, she read. This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you're feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way, Love Dad.
Liane Moriarty
#20. If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
Georgie Fame
#21. It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)
David Gessner
#22. You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks ... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that.
Jordan Buckley
#23. Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can ... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry
#24. I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent the great artists that created him. At the same time, as an actor you have to find what you relate to in the character and make it your own, and hopefully people respond to it.
Daniel Cudmore
#25. Everyone thinks of Anubis as this super jacked up jackal. I find that amusing. I guess he must work out a lot. I guess when you think of it, it is kind of funny. No other picture of gods from that time are ripped. I guess Anubis did Egyptian steroids.
Jessica Florence
#26. Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.
Susan May Warren
#27. Wheneve someone asks me, "Did you find everything alright?" I wonder to myself, "Is this a trick question?"
Maybe there is something that is not all right, and if I mention it first I get some exotic prizes!!
Neil Leckman
#28. The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.
A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood i lie.
Dawn follows every dusk, and all that rises - fall it must.
So, my blood shall find its way and trickle down your eyes.
The day your deeds of today, eventually make you cry.
Anurag Anand
#29. Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead?
Nalini Singh
#30. 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
#31. Why are you taking her side?'
"I'm not. But if I find out you did this, don't expect me to support you just because you're my son. It's despicable, what happened to her."
'What she did is despicable.'
"What she did, she did with you. Now get dressed and get down there.
Robin York
#32. Savannah's mind brushed his and found genuine regret for her sorrow. "How did you find me?"
"I always know where you are, every moment. Five years ago you said you needed time, and I gave it to you. But I've never left you. I never will."
-Savannah & Gregori
Christine Feehan
#33. Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?
Kit Reed
#34. So, Lord Auditor Coz. Did you find some fun?
Do I look cheerful?
More like manic.
It's a joy, Ivan, an absolute joy. The ImpSec internal Security system is lying to me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#35. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it."
"You drank the wine?"
"It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.
George R R Martin
#36. Not even. Bruised pretty good. The impact ruptured your spleen. They couldn't repair it." She gives a dismissive wave of her hand. "Don't worry, you don't need one. And if you did, they'd find you one, wouldn't they? It's everybody's job to keep you alive." "Is that
Suzanne Collins
#37. How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"
"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth
Sharon Shinn
#38. [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
Albert Einstein
#39. Mother, where did you find the courage?' ... ' Courage, Johnny? I don't know. We just do blindly the thing we think is right ... What was it that moved me: love? Duty? Ambition? All three. Now I have my reward in full measure.' -p. Abigail to Johnny, Those Who Love, p. 564
Irving Stone
#40. She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
Paulo Coelho
#41. I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
Kevin Durand
#42. 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
#43. Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
Lana Del Rey
#44. And what if I need something?'
'Find it yourself.'
Connor tsk-ed. 'Where did all the niceties go?'
'You're not a guest. You're family. Find your own fucking towels.
M.A. Grant
#45. Don't you get it? My soul is broken! I'm messed up, sick in the head, rotten to the core! I'm damaged. I'll never find the kind of love you did because I'll never be happy inside. All
Soman Chainani
#46. If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
#47. Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian ... "Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?"
Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#48. If God was with you all along, why did you rummage around this whole time in search of Him? Because although it is a fact that He cannot be found by seeking, only those who seek can find Him.
Elif Shafak
#49. Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
Ken Follett
#50. Successful heretics create their own religions ... You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need to support you, and yes, you can create a new religion around your faith. Steve Jobs did it on purpose at Apple and Phil Knight is famous for doing it at Nike.
Seth Godin
#51. You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
Burt Ward
#52. I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.
Stephen Colbert
#53. Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ground as you reach beauty and Orizaba flowers, but soon you find it has preceded you.
Saul Bellow
#54. So, Mr. Grady, how did you find yourself in the FBI?" ( ... )
Ty gave her a charming smile. "The Marines didn't want me, and it's hard to find a job where you can shoot things without getting arrested.
Abigail Roux
#55. I don't think the moral is good; and if any of you thuckeens go about imitating Anty in her laziness, you'll find it won't thrive with you as it did with her. She was beautiful beyond compare, which none of you are, and she had three powerful fairies to help her besides.
W.B.Yeats
#56. I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
Ben Affleck
#57. I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.
Henry Blodget
#58. How could you find magic if you did not believe in it?
Anne Perry
#59. Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.
Mariah Fredericks
#60. And how did you find the East?'
'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.
Ian McDonald
#61. It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
Mick Jagger
#62. Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?'
'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.
Sherry Thomas
#63. I'm sorry I went away, but I DID find my way back to you and I'm never fucking leaving again." ... "It's always been you. It will ALWAYS, only be you,
Tara Sivec
#64. Bex ... why did you buy an inflatable canoe?'
'It's for you to lie on. Or something.'
'And a watering can?'
'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi.
'But why do I need a plant spray?'
'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.
Sophie Kinsella
#65. Maybe it's time to let him go. Find someone who truly appreciates you. That person is out there."
I wanted to believe her. I really did.
Summer Felix
#66. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
Neil Gaiman
#67. Well. You have a secret from me," he said in the end. "No, don't turn away from me. Did you think I would try to press or conjure it out of you? Never that. Friends must be free. My tormenting you to find it would build a worse barrier between us than your hiding it.
C.S. Lewis
#68. Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?
Murasaki Shikibu
#69. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.
Jay Asher
#70. Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.
Zelig Pliskin
#71. Where did you find the whipped cream?" he asked. "You had milk, I had science," said Jack. "It's amazing how much of culinary achievement can be summarized by that sentence. Cheese making, for example. The perfect intersection of milk, science, and foolish disregard for the laws of nature.
Seanan McGuire
#72. People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
Clayton Christensen
#73. Amidst all the bacchanal and confusion in your life, find something to be grateful for, even if it is the air that you breath and trust me, this will transform you in some small way. Gratitude is really really the great multiplier.
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
#74. Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.
Hugh Lofting
#75. Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Laozi
#76. I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting.
Allison Van Diepen
#77. Every mouth you've ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you've ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don't mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You're here now, welcome home.
Warsan Shire
#78. You know, I find it so difficult being a ... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Werner Klemperer
#79. Vision is that original spark that was ignited within you and made you pick up a camera to capture whatever it is you saw, that made you turn to shout "Did you see that!" only to find no one there
so you created an image to do the telling.
David DuChemin
#80. It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
Sam Mendes
#81. It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.
Bill Scott
#82. Where is the motorcycle?"
"I ditched it. Someone will find it sooner or later and return it to the rental company."
"Not in the U.S."
"We're not in the U.S., in case you haven't noticed. People don't steal lost property, they return it."
"How did you get this car?"
"I stole it.
Anne Stuart
#83. Nila? Did he dare trust the security system? **** Nila hurried into the living room, "Lydia, where could I find the church newsletter from last month? Did you keep it?" Lydia lowered her knitting needles. "I think so.
Kathleen E. Friesen
#84. All right, I figure I got a beating coming. Let's get at it."
"That's not why I came."
"Why did you then?"
"To find out why you did it."
Jeff looked at the floor. "I don't know."
"Want to do it again?
Catt Ford
#85. Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door
Matt Broadway-Horner
#86. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara
#87. I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night?
Cat Stevens
#88. I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand.
You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting?
No. I think it affected my breaking my hand.
Tom Petty
#89. You leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.
Helene Hanff
#90. Colt knew he didn't have to remind Sully but he did it all the same. "He fucked his wife pretending he was me and pretending she was February." "I could see that'd make you impatient for us to find him.
Kristen Ashley
#91. People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
Merlin Mann
#92. Rule is no peeking, I won't even consider it." "If we find a need for your special immunity, we'll make use of it," Grandpa promised. "If you find a need," Seth muttered. "I bet you won't be looking very hard. Say, Coulter, how did you know
Brandon Mull
#93. (Jack ignored his greeting and slammed his fist straight into the jaw of the spy.)
What did he do? Wear the wrong color coat? Or is it his stock you find offensive this time? (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#94. Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
~ Gandalf to Pippin
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. Some people go through life and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.
Saint Cecilia
#96. Mr. Monogamy doesn't find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I'd have to chuck it all and join a monastery.
Kim Cormack
#97. Did you ever find it?" Cyn asked.
"What's that?"
"Something he wouldn't give you?"
"You know, Cynthia, I did. Very recently,in fact.
"What was it?"
"You
D.B. Reynolds
#98. You return to your car and find a note on the windshield: 'where did you go?' the note is not signed and the love in your heart is gone. It feels as if it was never there at all.
Patrick DeWitt
#99. It may surprise you to find that the older one gets the more we appreciate the wisdom of those we did not think possessed it. (Bascot)
Maureen Ash
#100. How did you find me?"
"You were lying in the grass a metre away from me. It wasn't rocket science.
Maggie Stiefvater
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