Best Drill Quotes

#1. Jason shouted in his best drill-sergeant voice: Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!

Rick Riordan

#2. When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.

George Friedman

#3. That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains.

K.W. Jeter

#4. It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Hugo Ball

#5. The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'

Robert Greenwald

#6. The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

Thomas L. Friedman

#7. Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

Richard M. Weaver

#8. Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

Edwin Drake

#9. Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Rick Majerus

#10. The masses are crude, lame, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them but to drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Emma Goldman

#11. We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Russ Feingold

#12. School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Karl G. Maeser

#13. If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

Jeff Goodell

#14. Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.

Paul Quantrill

#15. Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Gwendoline Christie

#17. It is, actually," Sherm said, looking her straight in the eyes, the way he had during the intruder drill. "Best thing ever.

Rebecca Stead

#18. When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

Jen Lancaster

#19. I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

Carol Berg

#20. I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

Dharma Mittra

#21. I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.

Nelly Ben Hayoun

#22. An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Chip Heath

#23. Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

#24. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

#25. Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

#26. Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a self-confessed geek and has enlarged his days by 12 secret hours in return for the sacrifice of ten albino virgin pygmy hippos.

Aleksandr Voinov

#27. When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

James Dyson

#28. If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

#29. I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

Tom Monaghan

#30. Nobody will press your buttons
or reflect your asshole to you better than your woman. She will point
out your weaknesses better than a boot camp drill sergeant.

David Deida

#31. Today we have done an hour's saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. Kat can't get it out of his head. "You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well," he says. Kropp

Erich Maria Remarque

#32. The nation will never drill, fill and extract its way out of what amounts to a public health crisis among some populations. Throwing more 'treaters' into the mix amounts to digging a hole in an ocean of disease.

Mary Otto

#33. Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

Bernie Sanders

#34. We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Ernst Toller

#35. Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

Angus King

#36. Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of time. You want to do this, then you've got to work for it. Now, TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES."
"Oh," said Hugh. "I've waited ten years to hear you say that to another woman.

Richelle Mead

#37. She's either the house mom or the drill sergeant that you eventually like and respect, even after he's removed his size eleven boot from your ass.

Ernie Lindsey

#38. You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

David Spade