Drag Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

  Elliott Smith

  Cheating, Chaos

  Song: Baby Britain, Album: XO

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• Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Encouragement, Inspiration, Burden

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• Drag wasn't always counterculture.

  Joni Mitchell

  Counterculture

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni". Interview with Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

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• For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

  Jean Paul

  Trying, Doe, Speed

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• An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.

  Sarah Miles

  Discipline, Forgiving, Enemy

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• The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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• Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Practice, Gender

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.199, Beacon Press

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• A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

  Francois Truffaut

  Movie, Film, Boat

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

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• Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.

  Sylvia Rivera

  Queens, Hell Hath No Fury, Scorned

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• Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

  Mark Lawrence

  Memories, Wind, Cocoons

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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• You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.

  RuPaul

  Men, Naked, Born

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

  RuPaul

  Hate, Personality, Ego

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• That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Clock Is Ticking, Window

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• Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Association, Purity

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• Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Giving, Lifetime

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• What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

  Barack Obama

  Rich, Economy, Ultras

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Associated Press Luncheon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2012.

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• If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Civilization, Roots, Suffering

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Everyone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down.

  Tammara Webber

  People, Sometimes, Forget

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• Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feet, Psychics, People

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• The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Weekend, Two

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.

  Paula Rego

  Real, Fall, Dust

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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