Drag Quotes - Page 15

• The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
  Cruelly, being barren.
  Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Light, Radiance

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• The moon has nothing to be sad about,
  Staring from her hood of bone.
  She is used to this sort of thing.
  Her blacks crackle and drag.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Darkness, Bones

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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• The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

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• A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Real, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

  Joseph Campbell

  Fate, Guides

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• I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Teenager, Thinking

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• As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.

  S. J. Perelman

  Years, Twelve, Ponies

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• You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Men, Earth

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Support You, Ideas

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.

  Arca

  Trying, Mold, Sound

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

  Micah Lexier

  Real, Artist, Sometimes

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Believe, Years, Forever

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Light, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

  Jack London

  Nice, Past, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

  Edward Young

  Pain, Leisure, Wheels

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.15

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• One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Life Is, Human Life

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• The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feet

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• Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

  George Porter

  Fun, Science, Twenties

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• Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

  Bill James

  People, Personality, Hatred

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Queens, Holiday, Men

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• I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

  Elton John

  Queens, Character, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Broken, Camels

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• You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.

  Bradford Cox

  Team, Real, Fighting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Space, Phones, Oxygen

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