Top 100 Duran's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. It was needlepoint, Mr. Burke. Tapestries are woven, you see, and I find it far more satisfying to stab than to weave.
Meredith Duran
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Why did she think she had the right to speak to him in this manner? Why did he constantly invite it?
Meredith Duran
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. How could any woman's skin be so soft? It was as if the world had never touched her.
Meredith Duran
#20. It flashed as a guiding light whilst
Duran was lost in his dreams
Veronica Purcell
#21. I deserve better - such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.
Meredith Duran
#22. 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
#23. The thing about Duran ... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
Andy Taylor
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Everybody knew that he spent an hour each morning hopping about and kicking things like a maddened rabbit
Meredith Duran
#27. If something frightens you," he said, "that means it's the best place to start.
Meredith Duran
#28. 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
#30. You're the lucky one. Otherwise you'd know there's a pleasure to be had from boredom. The best kind of pleasure: it means you've got nothing to worry about.
Meredith Duran
#32. Abigail, it's not what you think. I want you, I do, but I'm not willing to risk messing up what we have. It's not worth it for a quick f**k.
Gabbie S. Duran
#33. For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
Meredith Duran
#34. Canada is lovely," she breathed against his lips. "And you are lovely."
His laughter ghosted into her mouth. "That's my line, Lyd. You are supposed to think me handsome
Meredith Duran
#35. Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.
Roberto Duran
#36. Lord John: 'The court has suffered most sorely for your absence. We hardly know where to find our amusement now.'
Lady Nora: 'I am sorry to hear that, I suppose it takes some wit to produce one's own entertainment. Are you often bored?
Meredith Duran
#37. He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.
Meredith Duran
#38. For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's.
Meredith Duran
#39. Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in one's liver.
Meredith Duran
#40. 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
#41. I don't know whose ride I crave more the owner or the car? It's a tough toss up. Being that I've ridden in the car already, I would have to say the owner is next
Gabbie S. Duran
#42. It's very easy to resist men, isn't it? But managing to pick the right one
that is truly worthy of praise.
Meredith Duran
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. You are ... beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all.
Meredith Duran
#46. For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense?
Meredith Duran
#47. Might be a task as politically perilous to the former as the latter.
Meredith Duran
#48. Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
Tyson Fury
#52. 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
#53. I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.
Roberto Duran
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Love. Lust. Like. They're all the same and start somewhere, right? The point is, you should never give up.
Gabbie S. Duran
#59. Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran
#60. Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense.
Meredith Duran
#61. 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
#62. 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
#64. It means that you are my freedom, love."
"Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine.
Meredith Duran
#65. 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
#66. Yes, I'm an asshole, but I'm your asshole now, princess, so learn to deal with it.
Gabbie S. Duran
#67. What a terrible thing it was to wish to be known, to be seen, when one's life depended on remaining unnoticed.
Meredith Duran
#68. 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
#70. Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Gerry Cooney
#71. The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
Roberto Duran
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.
Mike Duran
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
Roberto Duran
#89. 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
#90. Here, inside her rooms, as she stood naked before him, an enchanted silence enclosed them, profound and
Meredith Duran
#91. 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
#93. 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
#94. If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.
Meredith Duran
#95. His slow smile might haved lured angels from heaven, flocking noisily, arms outstretched,happy to burn for him.
Meredith Duran
#96. 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
#97. Wisdom told him that one did not share secrets until one was willing to hear them broadcasted.
Meredith Duran
#98. 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
#99. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
Rita Ora
#100. We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
Andy Taylor
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