List of Topics starting with [D]

Customers are more friendly when they've had a meal.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

The more you know, the less you know.

Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near. ...

It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it ...

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

All the world is bitter as a tear

Become so very free that your whole existence is an act of rebellion.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and ...

My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the ...

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

The two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals, can participate in ...

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain ...

An artist's imagination is his greatest tool

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust ...

Women have been funny for years.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we ...

The Indians did not like to see anything odd a white squirrel, for instance ... They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil ...

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...

One smile on the battlefield is worth more than a dozen in the tavernTalon Of TallasianZachania

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, ...

You should be thankful for the journey of life. You only make this journey once in your life time.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

I've concentrated upon the things I control, and used that control to remove the restrictions and complications from my life.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, ...

I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not ...

From just one spark we can create one fire. And from one fire we can create one light. From that one light, we create vision ...

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand ...

There is no reason, therefore, so far as I am able to perceive, to deny the ultimate and absolute philosophical validity of a theory of ...

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will ...

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Then, in a whisper, Sam said, "I met someone else." Just like that, Darcy's world melted and distorted into something she no longer recognized. His ...

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the ...

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from ...

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Lies are complicated. The truth is simple.

Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That ...

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at ...

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make ...

Intimacy means "into me see"!

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I don't need to know my name because by the time I'm done, you'll forget yours.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due ...

Prayer is the expression of your heart's sincere desires poured out to God.

Every day, with all my heart, I will miss you. And each time I think of you, you will feel my blessing.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where ...

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the ...

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

When I started in homicide, the Dead Sea was just sick.

I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do.

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

I am two with nature.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so ...

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain ...

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will.

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, ...

Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.

This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some ...

He meant what he'd said about taking her home. His home. When she didn't argue the point, hefigured she was more shaken than she'd admitted.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the ...

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

The only way into a ministry that sees people's lives change, that brings joy and power and electricity without authoritarianism, is through preaching the gospel ...

I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no ...

The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An ...

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, ...

If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.

When you love someone, you stand for all of it. You see all of it, because even when they're in pain, it would still be ...

Live your Life as you want Life to be Lived