List of Topics starting with [D]

On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have to fully commit. If you don't, a ...

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but ...

Dryware, wetware, hardware, software, blackware, darkware, nightware, nightmare . . . The modem sits inviting beside the phone, red eyes. I let it rest - ...

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not ...

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can ...

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

Dinosauria, we born

The stars dehisce.By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.Stop me if you've heard this ...

Martin Silenus sniffed a jar, found a knife on the sandwich plate, and added great dollops of horseradish to his sandwich. His eyes sparkled with ...

...love is never stationary.

Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear ...

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the ...

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by ...

Such an actThat blurs the grace and blush of modesty;Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the roseFrom the fair forehead of an innocent love,And sets a ...

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished ...

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own ...

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full ...

Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she ...

You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy ... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better ... Something just a ...

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the ...

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and ...

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do?""No.""But that's ... ...

Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take ...

Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ...

In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

Freeze your words and actions, divert your mind and laugh for a little while! That is all it takes to tame the demon called anger!

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it ...

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, ...

No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe.

No matter where you are from your dreams are valid.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and ...

The problem was, the dodos wouldn't stop breeding

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceiveOf sunshine and wide air and winged things,By sympathy of ...

Whom have I in heaven but you?And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is ...

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Teamwork creates synergy and chemistry. We become unbreakable and believable.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed ... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Tendulkar must have known from his heart

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.

Degrur, that doesn't make any sense at all." "I just woke up,

It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to ...

All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang ...

You know, there's something when you just know you fit together. And I fit with you. I don't care what you are, human or anything ...

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is ...

La heradera del dia destruida.(The heiress of the destroyed day.)

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially ...

That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even ...

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in ...

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or ...

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the ...

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not ...

New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation ...

What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of ...

I see women and children starving to death, homes destroyed and buried in rubble, the countryside a burnt landscape, its only fruit the rotting flesh ...

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, ...

What are they called? Sprackles, shakums, edible sequins, glossy sugar deedeebobs, I don't know. Instead of sprinkling them on a cookie, I sprinkle them on ...

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this ...

Nothing will work unless you do.

Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love

I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if ...

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural ...

Staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.

Why Lila glaring at you, hombre? " asked Rico. "Though I wouldn't mind a hot piece of culo like that acknowledging my existence." Rico puckered ...

The cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one's parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for ...

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's ...

If there was one thing Brenda Dyerson was good at, she knew it, was cooking up the scraps destiny had laid out on its plates ...

We simply don't have enough data to form a conclusion

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on ...

It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him."Mulch imitated shock. ...

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of ...

Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I ...

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their ...

We enter the world of the story, delighted to go through that reliable and recognizable portal of promise, the magical words "Once upon a time.

I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... ...

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they ...

I suspect as the GOP gets more bizarre, a quiet defection will occur

According to Lacey's romance novels, the fittest ghosts are good, apart from them breaking your heart with their soul-crushing dashingness - Lacey's words.

When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.