List of Topics starting with [D]

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted ...

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the ...

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some ...

Danger!" Shawn heard, and automatically thought, Will Robinson. Old habit.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

Never ask age of a woman.

When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." -Kate

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience ...

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!

I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.

When people are to busy to survive they forget to live.

Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Do not regulate the private lives of people because, if you do, they will become angry and antisocial, and they will get what they want ...

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my ...

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help ...

How lovely, to meet a man who helped rather than fussed and scolded.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

He put his finger guns away. He should not be allowed to carry weapons of mass humiliation.

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - ...

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly ...

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Your girls are made by sugar and spice my girls are made by vodka and ice

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

The weather is nice outside, but it's cloudy in my heart.

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people ...

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves ...

The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and ...

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different ...

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare ... Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

It's as if the whole world was fire and crystal and aquiverwith some sort of cotton wrappers thrown over it." "Dust sheets," said Marjorie. "I ...

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do ...

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write ...

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey?Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only ...

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Love is the only gold.

True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun.

First achieve small things and you will achieve great things ultimately... and no one will forget.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

My Valentine's playlist ... you're gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You're gonna have to play some 112. You're gonna have to play some Confession ...

It's harder to come back than it is to arrive.

Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch ...

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise ...

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them ...

THOMAS IS THE REAL LEADER

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your ...

My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will ...

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

How it feels like to be normal

Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy.

Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.

In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at ...

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so ...

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be ...

Frankly,the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms,smoking a joint, and calling his mother a "totallygroovy chick" was wrong on so many levels hewanted to erase ...

I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish ...

You know, Mercy, it is really very simple." He took my hand. "He has no power, hon. Not unless you hand yours over.

Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and ...

The German language is the organ among the languages.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be ...

Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that "all you can eat" is not a personal challenge.

What can be more exciting than that?" "Fighting ShadowClan

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter ...

You can't tell somebody to kiss your ass on a scooter!

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own ...

The Reestablishment promised a future too perfect to be possible and society was too desperate to disbelieve. They never realized they were signing away their ...

When life gives you lemons, squirt your friend in the eye with it.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change ...

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

I Am a Child Of God. And He has sent me here. Has given me an earthly home, with parents kind and dear. Lead me, ...

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The ...

Tom read, - "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.""Them's good words, enough," said the ...

[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when ...

We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits.But we do not know ...

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.

Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay ... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it ... ...

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given ...

She believed everything had held, that it would all be just as she had left it, that the years wouldn't dare swindle her of this ...