List of Topics starting with [D]

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having ...

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time ...

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say ...

I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear ...

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation ...

The way the word sinksinto the deep snow of the page

And crawling on the planet's face,some insects called the human race.Lost in time, and lost in space.And meaning.

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you ...

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 ...

Ser Gregor the Mountain," she said softly. "Dunsen, Raff the Sweetling, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, Queen Cersei." It made her feel queer to leave out ...

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.

I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarvik's artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill ...

Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do ... Your Doings Define and Describe You.

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward,

All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.

She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the ...

God loves it when His children pray BIG, BOLD PRAYERS. Don't be afraid to ask your Father for anything!

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.

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 ...

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ...

Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ...

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the ...

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk ...

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

Ashes are all around the desolate ground. What beauty could behold the darkness of a soul? -Keeley ...

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to ...

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...

A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning ...

We were both damaged goods that had a hand in damaging each other further.

Doesn't he have any daughters?' Emma muttered. 'He has no use for them,' said Mark. 'They say he has girl children killed at birth.'Emma couldn't ...

I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of ...

If you are seeking the counsel of God on a directional matter in your life, never get so caught up in the specifics of your ...

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are ...

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

It is soon to be springThe Christmas toys barely played with I have a glass soldier whose head can turn The epaulettes interchangeable Soon flowers ...

Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and ...

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England ...

Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new ...

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

Depositions - and

Soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's ...

Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

I am quite convinced now ... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing ...

The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of ...

The door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there ...

Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the ...

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust ...

Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. ...

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not ...

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal ...

I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at ...

Parking garages are like that person drinking their soda with a straw: They just sit there and suck.

A sidewalk vendor who was selling hubcaps, rhinestone-glittery straight razors, and Lone Star State flags embossed with the words DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS.

My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is ...

We'll call ourselves Victorious Secret and our motto will be 'We Live to Spank You.' Duuude. Yes! I'm basically the smartest person in the world. ...

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On ...

All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very ...

The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining ...

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us ...

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.The truth once told (and whereby should we ...

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering, and ...

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday ...

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, ...

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put ...

All attack is a call for help.

It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it - there is literally nothing to do but ...

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Whatever you believe in your heart, you will receive it.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

I know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,Till thou return unto the ground; for thouOut of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,For ...