Do You Know Quotes - Page 17

• After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Cities, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

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• Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine?

  Libba Bray

  Confused, Eye, Night

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.140, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Years, Ice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

  Mitch Albom

  Eyebrows, One Day, Sage

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• Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  House, Feelings, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.612, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Waiting, Tears

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.138, Penguin

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• Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Heart, Wish, Knows

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• Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

  Abigail Reynolds

  Laughter, Men, Desire

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• Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

  Nalini Singh

  Tired, Cutting, Flames

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.727, Penguin

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• But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cute, Girl, Mean

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• What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, What Matters, Lasts

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• Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love You, Knows, Suspects

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.676, e-artnow

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• I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

  David Eddings

  Thinking, Should Have, Might

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Thinking, Forever

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• The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, School, College

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't even see the movie. I read the script. But someone asked me, "Do you know what the best part of the Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman movie is?" And I said, "me lee see ree bee." I just knew that would be the best part.

  Neal Brennan

  Moon, Men, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

  Bill Moyers

  Bark, Basements, Supposed To Be

  Source: progressive.org

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• I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Fun, Kids, Independent

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Comandante Fidel Castro sent his people there into Africa, in the Caribbean; they died right alongside of others who were seeking the blessing of justice and freedom and equity. What other man do you know who did such a thing?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Blessing, Justice

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I like what I like, I am who I am, I know what I want to do, you know what I'm saying?

  Kevin Durant

  Who I Am, Want, Knows

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Party, Intelligent, People

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sweet, Children

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.210, Bantam

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• Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Self, Waiting

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• How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

  Pete Hautman

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  Pete Hautman (2008). “Godless”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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