Top 100 Duran Quotes
#1. If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Roddy Doyle
#2. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#3. A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.
Nick Rhodes
#4. We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
Andy Taylor
#5. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
Rita Ora
#6. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse
Joel Klein
#7. I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
Eric Whitacre
#8. The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.
Marvin Hagler
#9. As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.
Roger Andrew Taylor
#10. Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#11. The thing about Duran ... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
Andy Taylor
#12. It flashed as a guiding light whilst
Duran was lost in his dreams
Veronica Purcell
#13. There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
Tyson Fury
#14. Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break dancer at the Odyssey on the night of the Duran Duran look-alike contest and murdered.
Bret Easton Ellis
#15. From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
Andy Taylor
#16. I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too.
Ashton Irwin
#17. I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.
Bernard Fanning
#18. You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
Nick Rhodes
#19. I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"
Drew Barrymore
#20. Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.
Rob Sheffield
#21. This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.
Margaret Cho
#22. I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.
Michael Rosenbaum
#23. No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#24. I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.
Davey Havok
#25. A women's college is a fine idea, and I hope it continues to flourish. Even if most of its students go on to dedicate themselves to hearth and home, their children will benefit for their mothers' educations.
Meredith Duran
#26. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
#27. A flash of anger made her turn back. When had he ever known the kind of vulnerability a woman must suffer, when left on her own to face the world? How could he know that a woman might seek any strategy to render herself ineligible, invisible?
Meredith Duran
#28. He smiled at her: he simply couldn't help himself. He was so glad she'd wandered into his house to kill him.
Meredith Duran
#29. The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
Roberto Duran
#31. I'll draw up a list. [ ... ] You can give me a general idea, if you like: hair color, eye color-"
"None!"
"None? Bit of a tall order, there, Gwen. Aristocracy lacks for albinos.
Meredith Duran
#32. What a terrible thing it was to wish to be known, to be seen, when one's life depended on remaining unnoticed.
Meredith Duran
#33. Yes, I'm an asshole, but I'm your asshole now, princess, so learn to deal with it.
Gabbie S. Duran
#34. There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.
Meredith Duran
#35. It means that you are my freedom, love."
"Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine.
Meredith Duran
#37. With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by definition, an absence of experience - character - knowledge. To desire that absence seemed rather deviant.
Meredith Duran
#38. You are thirty years old. It is time you overcame your objections to marriage." Michael could no longer follow even the smallest bit of this conversation. "What objections? I have no objections. I've simply never met a woman to inspire the thought.
Meredith Duran
#39. Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense.
Meredith Duran
#40. Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran
#41. Love. Lust. Like. They're all the same and start somewhere, right? The point is, you should never give up.
Gabbie S. Duran
#42. This was banter, all right - pointed and spiky, the kind he'd expect from a bloke. A blunt tongue in an angel's body: it was the devil's own recipe to enamor him.
Meredith Duran
#43. She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved.
Meredith Duran
#44. No, thank you. I prefer my liquor cold.'
'Right. Or in a pipe, I suppose.'
Phin's brow lifted. 'What a clumsy way to drink liquor. Are you sure you're not concussed?
Meredith Duran
#45. I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
Roberto Duran
#46. I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.
Roberto Duran
#47. Wisdom told him that one did not share secrets until one was willing to hear them broadcasted.
Meredith Duran
#48. I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers.
Meredith Duran
#49. His slow smile might haved lured angels from heaven, flocking noisily, arms outstretched,happy to burn for him.
Meredith Duran
#50. If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.
Meredith Duran
#52. He smiled. How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.
Meredith Duran
#53. Here, inside her rooms, as she stood naked before him, an enchanted silence enclosed them, profound and
Meredith Duran
#54. They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.
Mike Duran
#55. Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
Roberto Duran
#56. De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.
Roberto Duran
#57. Look I don't know what's going on in that beautiful head of yours, but whatever it is, it brought you to me, which makes you mine now, and I always protect what's mine, Abigail.
Gabbie S. Duran
#58. I'm here," he said into her ear, as the tears came faster. "Emma, I'm here with you now. Listen to me: I will always be here."Always, she thought. He said "always," but he had forgotten to say finally. Finally you are here. Thank God, finally at last.
Meredith Duran
#59. And the smile that lingered on his mouth now! Slow to spread, it assumed a mocking edge that - to her amazement - made her breath catch.
Meredith Duran
#60. The cat's tail was straying into her face again; she was forced to expel air in a most unbecoming fashion to avoid a mouthful of hair.
Meredith Duran
#61. You said we must coexist peaceably,' he continued. 'I agree. Instruct me how.'
'That was a lie,' she said, her voice choked. 'I meant to trick you to my table. You know this!'
'Truths sometimes appear in unbidden forms.
Meredith Duran
#63. She urged him on; he remained with her, focused, his lips now on her shoulder, now on her jaw; a courtship above, a steady invasion below - she could make any noise, do anything she liked, he would never go -
Meredith Duran
#64. Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.
Meredith Duran
#65. Everybody knew that he spent an hour each morning hopping about and kicking things like a maddened rabbit
Meredith Duran
#66. Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.
Roberto Duran
#67. People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than highly evolved bacteria, leeches on a rotting ball of clay. It's depressing, I know.
Mike Duran
#68. A small mole marked the corner of her right eye, as if the devil had pressed a dark kiss to the tender skin there, giving her his mark before unleashing her on humanity.
Meredith Duran
#69. I deserve better - such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.
Meredith Duran
#71. How could any woman's skin be so soft? It was as if the world had never touched her.
Meredith Duran
#72. She had always loved him, after all. And perhaps he knew it. Perhaps he saw more than she had suspected. And despite it, he did not look away.
Meredith Duran
#73. She had told the truth: she did not like to dance. Men assumed that a spinster wanted for excitement. Dried-up. They made a point of spinning her wildly across the floor. Once she had fallen, and thereafter she'd declined all invitations.
Meredith Duran
#74. Nobody belongs to that world ... Nobody feels as if they belong, at any rate. They're all watching each other
fearful of the laughter coming from across the room, wondering to themselves, are they the target? Are they the joke?
Meredith Duran
#75. Six hours' uninterrupted sleep each night, correspondenceanswered promptly, tenants provided for, base temptations avoided,swearing curtailed, regular visits to church - this righteous routine kepthim on track, but he began to think it could not transform him.
Meredith Duran
#76. Why did she think she had the right to speak to him in this manner? Why did he constantly invite it?
Meredith Duran
#77. The hand of a woman may be soft, but her reach is long. And its subtlety does not make it any less effective!
Meredith Duran
#79. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...
Meredith Duran
#80. When he entered after her, she saw that he meant to come straight to her, and she raised a hand. "No," she said. "Wait."
His footsteps halted. He had always listened to her, hadn't he? Had always heard her."
-Emma and Julian
Meredith Duran
#81. Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
Evangeline Duran Fuentes
#82. She had told herself she should be reassured by his squeamishness; a man who balked at scars would not give her new ones. Now she suddenly wondered if she'd had it wrong. A man without scars would always underestimate their value. He would not see them as marks of courage.
Meredith Duran
#83. You're mine," she growls, her nails digging into my chest. "I don't care what you say."
"And you're mine," I declare in return.
Gabbie S. Duran
#84. Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.
Meredith Duran
#85. It was needlepoint, Mr. Burke. Tapestries are woven, you see, and I find it far more satisfying to stab than to weave.
Meredith Duran
#86. His fingers settled on her hair. The purest, softest shade of black. The shade one saw when one closed one's eyes, in a warm, comfortable place, to rest.
Meredith Duran
#87. Truth be told, there wasn't a single one of them who didn't deserve a lightning bolt from the Almighty. Everything else was straight mercy.
Mike Duran
#88. I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
Roberto Duran
#89. Why charm anyone? What a futile exercise it seemed now! People blew away like dandelion thistles, carried off by death or indifference or sheer, inexplicable whim. Why bother to grasp at them? One would only be disappointed eventually.
Meredith Duran
#90. Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran
#91. Might be a task as politically perilous to the former as the latter.
Meredith Duran
#92. For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense?
Meredith Duran
#93. You are ... beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all.
Meredith Duran
#95. She had that kind of power, though thank God she didn't know it. She had no idea that she could light up a room like a lamp at midnight. He
Meredith Duran
#96. He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.
Meredith Duran
#97. I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.
Simon Le Bon
#98. If Gerry were dying of thirst and spotted Alex two feet from a well, he still would not think he required his younger brother's help. It simply would never occur to him that Alex might be able to provide it.
Meredith Duran
#99. I want to give a beautiful speech at the end of the world - a rousing and inspiring collection of thoughts expressed eloquently through a dying language that is ultimately too little too late; absurd and utterly meaningless - almost insulting as life burns away.
Jonathan Douglas Duran
#100. Some people were like that; they could not escape criticism, because they never quite managed to convince themselves of the role everyone believed they should fill.
Meredith Duran
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