Do You Know Quotes - Page 35

• Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

  Richard Yates

  Inability To Love, Insane, Definitions

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.290, Random House

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• You're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble." "Why?" "Because of her right there. Do you know what Daisy would do if you ever cheated on her." "Move on to the next guy that told her she has nice tits." "Okay, you're probably right on that one.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Nice, Moving, Guy

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• You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.

  Yara

  Baby, Sleep, Night

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• Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Grandmother, Thinking

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• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Struggle, Night

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• Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Love You, Laughing, May

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fall, Cat, Knows

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• Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

  Lester Piggott

  Winning, Asking, Earth

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• Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Hands, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mother, Mean, Silence

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Hot, Buns

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• Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ambition, Mind, Remember

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• Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Movie, Giving, Theatre

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• Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Life, Book, Black

  Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

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• [Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Character, Thinking, Media

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• Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.

  Wes Anderson

  Character, Brain, Way

  "Interview: Wes Anderson - 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Writer & Director". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 6, 2014.

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• You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

  John Lennon

  Dream, Real, Awake

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• Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Drinking, Sober Up, Views

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?

  Heinrich Muller

  Interesting, Fats, Cases

  "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny". Book by Edward Crankshaw, 1956.

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• I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Doe, Who We Are

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

  Jo Brand

  Mean, Important, Dinner

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• Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Real, Evidence, Appearing

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• How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

  Mike Birbiglia

  People, Answers, Carnival Rides

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