List of Topics starting with [D]

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword ...

Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying ...

I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind ...

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west that cloud field of the sky to arm themselves ...

I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot.

What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying ...

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus ...

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...

For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all ...

O wandering graves! O restless sleep!O silence of the sunless day!O still ravine! O stormy deep!Give up your prey! Give up your prey!

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there ...

Tell your bitch from hell to take it if she can here and now. This temple will be rid of your influence today. You have ...

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted ...

No, brother-in-law, you have passed a death sentence on your people and on your Queen, your wife, the woman you have vowed to protect. And ...

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of ...

Once upon a time, in a tiny village called Talry on the bank of the great river Burine, in the Riverlands Barony of Varune, the ...

Liverpool really ever since I can remember, but anyway in the '50s and '60s was always a place where people were potentially in show business, ...

The graveyard is every man final resting place.

"The She of the dragon will return and ascendWhen the cycle of twelve draws to an end ... ""The She of the Dragoneye will restore ...

Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to ...

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. ...

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take ...

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried ...

That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that ...

Ever since Jordana dumpled me, I've started feeling like a middle-aged person. I think it is to do with trauma. I just walk around doing ...

Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an ...

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter, I informed him.

I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial ...

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, ...

Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know ...

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. ...

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips ...

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp ...

I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last ...

If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the ...

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything ...

Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, ...

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ...

I needed a Chuck Bass. He'd get me. He'd understand me. We were one and the same, Chuck and I.

Careful what you wish for; the darkness in my heart is kept in check by the smallest amount of light.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the ...

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something ...

But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of ...

When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea

I taught the older grades - five through eight. They required my full attention and kept my mind busy.

At first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the ...

Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying ...

Let me out," Harry said again."No," Dumbledore repeated."If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-""By all means ...

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done ...

When do we stop crying over our injuries? when we get old enough to swallow our tears, or when the people we love stop responding ...

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Diels told the reporters, The value of the SA and the SS, seen from my viewpoint of inspector-general responsible for the suppression of subversive tendencies ...

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.

Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice ...

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and ...

Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to ...

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

I feel we don't really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping ...

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco ...

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me," Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the ...

Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart.

You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you ...

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying ...

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud. (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, ...

Master Nolan - When a Dom takes control, leaving no choices for the sub, he has to see to all her needs, not just sexual, ...

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What ...

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be ...

I am a pacifist, danm it! And now I'm bleeding. What is wrong with you, you sick sicko?

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

He wanted her mind, her soul, her heart. He would not take pieces. Not when it came to her!

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

While infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ...

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,pulling off the elopement wedding ring,and holding them, clicking themin thumb and forefinger,the indent of twenty-five years,like a tiny ...

Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

Declutter your life from the burden of all that stands between you and your dreams.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the ...

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.