Dropping Quotes - Page 7

• I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

  Rick Moody

  Book, President, Wonder

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."

  Jello Biafra

  Teacher, Children, Real

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, War, Grief

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• I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

  "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

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• I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Compelling Reason, World

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

  Allan Kozinn

  Museums, Hands, Orchestra

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• But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

  Alan Arkin

  Discovery, People, Life Is

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• I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

  Greg Proops

  War, Lawyer, Situation

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• I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

  Shaggy

  Believe, Drawers, Concerts

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• Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.

  Miles Kington

  Photography, Weather, Two

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• Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.

  Molly Ivins

  Bombs, World, Problem

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.

  Marni Jackson

  Mother, Baby, Mean

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• True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.

  Brad Warner

  Life, Time, Real

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• The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Offering, Dressing Up

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• (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

  Ira Berkow

  Baseball, Winning, Awards

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• Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

  Bob Brown

  Technology, Innovation, Environmental

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• If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• You will be getting a haircut, won't you?" Halt ran his hand through his hair. It was getting a little long, he thought. I'll give it a trim," he said, his hand dropping unconciously to the hilt of his saxe knife. This time, Pauline did look up. You'll get a haircut," she said. Her gaze was steady and unwavering. I'll get a haircut," he agreed meekly.

  John Flanagan

  Hair, Hands, Knives

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• Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

  Rachel Caine

  Cousin, Screw You, Expecting

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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?

  Jojo Moyes

  Eye, Voice, Enough

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.333, Penguin

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• He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We both know I’m not a gentleman.” “Yeah. Okay, let me out. I’m tired.” “There’s something else,” he said, and I groaned. “What now?” “This.” He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers were sandwiched between us. His eyes looked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion. “Oh, no, you don’t!” I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hard against his chest; it was like shoving a tree. “Yes,” he said very softly, leaning down. “Yes, I do.

  Cate Tiernan

  Tired, Eye, Oxygen

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• You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.

  John Flanagan

  Believe, Grandmother, Hands

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