Do You Know Quotes - Page 29

• Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Smart, Book, People

  Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella (2010). “My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.135, Macmillan

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• You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Lost Love, Believe

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.89, Egmont UK

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• I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger (Chapter 26), July 16, 1951.

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• Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

  John Green

  Goodbye, Ideas, Might

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.124, Penguin

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• I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

  Jessica Sorensen

  Wall, Writing, Heart

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• Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Airports, Opposites, Atoms

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Book, Eyebrows, Stuff

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

  Knut Hamsun

  Giving, Ordinary, Way

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.33, Souvenir Press

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• Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.

  Linda Howard

  Laughter, Men, Names

  Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• He dipped his head, placing his mouth to the space below her ear. He nipped her there, just a tiny bite that sent a wave of heat through her veins. And then his lips moved lower, leaving a hot trail behind. “You drive me insane, absolutely freaking insane. Do you know that? I bet you do.

  J. Lynn

  Space, Leaving, Insane

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• But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

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• What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you know how much trouble you may have gotten me in?" Adrian grinned. "Nah. They all feel bad for you. You'll achieve martyrdom after dancing with a mean, wicked vampire. Job security with the Alchemists.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows?" (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dying, Done, Cows

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• I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

  John Green

  Life, Giving Up, Mean

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• Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

  John Flanagan

  Butterfly, Honor, Said

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• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

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• Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

  Georgette Heyer (1963). “The Nonesuch”

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• Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cutting, Men, Balls

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.102, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

  Richelle Mead

  Silent Films, Musical, Sound

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• What do you know? She liked to be told she was scary. Kinky.

  Kevin Hearne

  Scary, Kinky, Knows

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.274, Del Rey

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• Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, Harm

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

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• Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie from a thousand years ago." "Uh...Betsy..." "Don't say it." You know how you don't know how stupid something is until you hear yourself say it? That happened to me a lot.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Stupid, Thinking, Years

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• Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Faces, Looks

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• I know about parabatai,” said Magnus, an angry, dark undercurrent to his voice. “I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Voice, Magnus Bane

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