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For everything that's wonderful, there's something wicked, too. That's the price you pay for magic. It's worth it, I thought.
— Danielle Paige
I believe God is offering me the chance to lift someone who needs me. My aunt taught me there's always someone who needs us.
— Dorothy Adamek
It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!
— Dorothy Garlock
He's always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty.
— Dorothy Parker
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
— Dorothy Osborne
For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.
— Dorothy Day
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
— David Levithan
Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
— Dorothy Parker
There's no place like home," Dorothy
— Chris Colfer
Ducking for apples change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker
It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.
— Dorothy Fuldheim
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
— Dorothy Gilman
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
— Dorothy Malone
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery ...
— Dorothy Cottrell
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
— Dorothy Draper
That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.
— Dorothy Koomson
[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
— Dorothy Parker
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
— Dorothy Gambrell
One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.
— Dorothy Dunnett
If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
— Dorothy Hamill
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
— Dorothy Thompson
Get lost, Dorothy." "It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens," observed the girl, thoughtfully.
— L. Frank Baum
Stream of consciousness is a muddle-headed phrase. It is not a stream, it's a pool, a sea, an ocean.
— Dorothy M. Richardson
I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.
— Dorothy Dunnett
The glass-blower's cat is bompstable, said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Mrs. Whittaker's dress was always studiously suited to its occasion; thus, her bearing had always that calm that only the correctly attired may enjoy.
— Dorothy Parker
It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.
— Dorothy Koomson
There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy."Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
"Neither. He's a
a
a meat dog," said the girl. — L. Frank Baum
But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think youthough that's nothing new. — Dorothy L. Sayers
No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.
— Dorothy Clark
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
— Dorothy Gilman
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love!
— Dorothy Dunnett
You got a nickname, little Dorothy Matthews? 'Cause that's a fuckin' mouthful, right there. Not that I mind a mouthful of pretty girl.
— Madeline Sheehan
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
— Dorothy Parker
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I beg your pardon," said Lord Peter, "I was quoting poetry. Very silly of me. I got the habit at my mother's knee and I can't break myself of it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
If you will excuse us?''Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses. — Dorothy Dunnett
Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
— Dorothy Parker
There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
— Dorothy Norman
One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.
— Dorothy Hamill
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
— Dorothy Hamill
The autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
— Dorothy Allison
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.
— Dorothy Malone
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
— Dorothy Parker
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.''That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think. — Dorothy Dunnett
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
— Dorothy Parker
Every love's the love beforeIn a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
— Dorothy Allison
To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
You say wicked like it's a good thing.
— Danielle Paige
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
— Dorothy Parker
What's purple mean?"Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting — Richelle Mead
Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
— Dorothy Parker
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
— Dorothy Parker
I'm going back to Russia. That's where the money is, and the power. And, of course, the ladies.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are
— Dorothy Koomson
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His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...
— Dorothy Osborne
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
It's a treat to be kissed, even goodbye.
— Dorothy Lamour
There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
— Dorothy Parker
Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.
— Dorothy Sarnoff
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
— Dorothy Day
It's harder to come back than it is to arrive.
— Dorothy B. Hughes
Silence isn't always golden; sometimes it's just yellow.
— Dorothy Grover Bolton
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
— Dorothy Parker
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handlingit's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. — Dorothy L. Sayers
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
— Dorothy Allison
