Drag Quotes - Page 16

• I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

  Jackie Kennedy

  President, Widows, Littles

  19 Copy quote

• Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

  Louise Bogan

  Hate, Choices, Joy

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

  Miles Franklin

  Bible, People, Coward

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

  Joan Jett

  Airports, Stuff, Touring

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

  Joss Whedon

  Fans, Obscurity, Whole Life

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

  Edna Ferber

  Nerves, Use, Way

  14 Copy quote

• Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

  Gertrude Stein

  Father, Men, Angry Man

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

  Doris Lessing

  Dark, Views, White

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

  Victor Hugo

  Weight, Common, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1874). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.20

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Doubt, Shadow

  8 Copy quote

• During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Husband, Children, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there?" A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Inspiration, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).

  Violet Duke

  Husband, Coffee, Issues

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

  Patricia McConnell

  White, Facts, Assuming

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes your dreams come true, and its a real drag.

  Kyle Kinane

  Dream, Real, Sometimes

  6 Copy quote

• I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

  "Song: God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II (Revenge)". August 22, 1991.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Struggle, Silent, Accepting

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Song, Thinking, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

  Alan Cohen

  Stuff, Energy, Littles

  Alan Cohen (2007). “Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It”, p.67, Bantam

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

  Tom Lehman

  Dad, Kids, Balls

  4 Copy quote

• If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

  Bill Nichols

  Spurs, Done, Fields

  6 Copy quote

• The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

  Ben Bernanke

  Europe, Acting, Financial

  "China digs its heels in as Europe crisis deepens". "The World Today" with Emily Bourke, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

  Doug Ose

  California, Energy, Negative

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

  Sophie Jordan

  Real, Moving, Blood

  4 Copy quote