Bog Down Quotes

#1. There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Wait - something's gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)

Charles Stross

#3. Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

#4. If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Chuck Hagel

#5. An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Daniel Keys Moran

#6. Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

Edward M. Lerner

#7. I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

Callie Thorne

#8. If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Chris Evans

#9. When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill.

Ilona Andrews

#10. Claire knew she loved her daughter too much; it was dangerous to need another human being so desperately, but Claire had never known any other way to love.

Kristin Hannah

#11. If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Stephen King

#12. Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?

Camron Wright

#13. I step through origins
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat:
the bog floor shakes,
water cheeps and lisps
as I walk down
rushes and heather.
I love this turf-face,
it's black incisions,
the cooped secrets
of process and ritual:
-Kinship

Seamus Heaney

#14. There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Robert Hilburn

#15. Her hair was copper-red, like the grass of the shore on which the spring floods leave their rust; but her eyes were dark, like the pools among the marshes, drawing the beholder down into their depths, and their surface was still as bog-water.

Aino Kallas

#16. How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Ray Bradbury

#17. My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

Adora Svitak

#18. Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

Stella Maeve

#19. There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Chad Hurley

#20. The huge amount of love and support I've been receiving, whether it's in the fashion industry itself or on social media, truly warms my heart and motivates me to be a voice for all the women out there.

Maria Borges

#21. Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

W.S. Gilbert

#22. Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

Harper Lee

#23. One cannot live without inconsistency.

Carl Jung

#24. Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Alafair Burke

#25. If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

Johnny Depp