Do You Know Quotes - Page 15

• 'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. . . . 'I 'spect I grow'd.'

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Laughter, Children

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• Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

  Mark Lawrence

  Weed, Men, Tree

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• Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

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• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Christian Slater

  Heart, Choices, Untamed

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

  Robert G. Allen

  Money, Investing Your Time, Saving

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Government, Years, Lasts

  "The Kremlin and the People". Book by Walter Duranty, p. 126, 2007.

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• Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?

  Alfred Schnittke

  Firsts, Composer, Accordions

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• Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

  Plautus

  Law, Littles, Uncertain

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• How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Mark, Wells

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• It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Paris, Scary

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• Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

  Jessica Day George

  Falling In Love, Love You, Heart

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• I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Wings, People

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?

  Patricia Heaton

  Commitment, Years, Together

  "Heaton trades 'Raymond' for romance". www.today.com. November 22, 2005.

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• How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Kids, Political

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• Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Games, Play

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• War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

  George F. Kennan

  War, Thoughtful, Iraq

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see.

  SebastiAn

  Brother, Dark, Men

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• When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

  David Sedaris

  People, Laughing, Listening

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• I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Mean, People, Guy

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Vices, Directors

  "At 76, Actor Ian McKellen Embodies An Older Sherlock In 'Mr. Holmes'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 20, 2015.

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• But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.

  Claire Messud

  Memories, Home, Ideas

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.118, Vintage

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• Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Past, Men

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?

  Rick Yancey

  Enemy, Know How, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.80, Penguin

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• I know all about you," Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. "You do? How could you?" "Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you." He looked sideways at me. "Do you know much about me?

  Gail Carson Levine

  Taken, Steps, Sideways

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'" "But, I’m not." "How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?"

  Jojo Moyes

  Cutting, Ideas, Done

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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