Do You Know Quotes - Page 30

• Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

  Shel Silverstein

  Necks, Knees, Toes

  Shel Silverstein, “Boa Constrictor”

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• We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mind, Wade, Useless

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• Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wizards, Stairs, Buried

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Long, Stories, Done

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Holocaust, Survivor

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• Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Army, Enemy, Skins

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• Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

  Melina Marchetta

  Princess, Waiting, Needs

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• Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.

  Veronica Roth

  Confused, Nice, Fighting

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• Her smile faded. “Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don’t know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don’t know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn’t matter.

  Anne Bishop

  Done, Matter, Helping

  Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

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• I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Gone

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.485, Simon and Schuster

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• Then why are you crying?” “Because of you!” I beat my fists on his chest. “Because I love you, and I don’t know what to do! I can solve almost any problem, but I can’t solve this. I don’t know how to deal with that. And I’m afraid! Afraid for you! Do you know what it’d do to me if something happens to you?” I stopped hitting him and clasped my hands over my own chest, as though there was a danger my heart might fall out. “This! This would break. Shatter. Crumble. Crumble until it was dust.” I dropped my hands. “Blown away on the wind until there was nothing left.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Love You, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Graduation, Emotional, Gps

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

  Stephen Colbert

  Humor, Laughing, Comedy

  Parade interview, September 23, 2007.

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• I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.

  Jojo Moyes

  Men, Osmosis, Opposites

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• Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline

  Judith McNaught

  Laughing, Enjoy Life, Married

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.

  Alan Abelson

  Running, Eye, Men

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• Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Earth, Sides, Danger

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1878, Delphi Classics

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• Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

  Milton Berle

  Assessment, Tests, Grades

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• Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

  Brad Pitt

  Relationship, Real, Trump

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Doors, Voice, Mind

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• If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

  Brian Setzer

  Heart, Mean, Digging

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• The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Trying, Knows

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