Drag's Quotes

#1. Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show. - Author: Libba Bray

#2. I am going to see if there's any hot hunks that I can club over the head and drag back to the ship for some no-strings, hot and sweaty sex." She expected a reaction. What she didn't expect was growling. - Author: Eve Langlais

#3. I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. - Author: Barber Conable

#4. It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. - Author: Dolly Parton

#5. Drag all the skeletons out where we can see 'em," she said softly."That's the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light. - Author: Cate Tiernan

#6. I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us. - Author: Joel Osteen

#7. Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice. - Author: RuPaul

#8. Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign. - Author: Andrew Rosenthal

#9. There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming ... home. - Author: Holly Black

#10. It's not the things you don't want that drag you under. It's the things you think you want.
Those, are the killers. - Author: Iain S. Thomas

#11. I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder). - Author: Violet Duke

#12. You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family. - Author: Sophia Bush

#13. Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet. - Author: Tex Winter

#14. I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age. - Author: Rosanna Arquette

#15. 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. - Author: Sandra Bernhard

#16. No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#17. If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul's Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish. - Author: Julie Klausner

#18. Whatever shit happened to drag us here to this moment ... I wish most of it hadn't needed to go down the way it did, but I'm still glad it ended up here, right here ... The pain was worth it if it's what brought you to me. - Author: Linda Kage

#19. We're having Thanksgiving at our place," he said. "An old-fashioned Thanksgiving." "With drag queens and hookers and cranberry sauce?" I asked breathlessly. "Just like at Grandma's," he replied. - Author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#20. The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. But they just don't show the part where there's a revolution and they drag her to the guillotine. - Author: Mark D. Diehl

#21. When you get to Lady Kincaid's house, don't leave until you've had a chance to talk to the man, even if you have to drag him by the ear. It may take a bit of persistence."
Sophie grinned, feeling better already. "That I have in abundance. - Author: Karen Hawkins

#22. Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary. - Author: Keanu Reeves

#23. We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag. - Author: Raphael Cushnir

#24. Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. - Author: Nick Hornby

#25. One's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then. - Author: George Eliot

#26. Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right. - Author: Mignon McLaughlin

#27. There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach. - Author: Edmund White

#28. His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death. - Author: Stephen Craig

#29. It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again. - Author: David Johansen

#30. The Aztecs invented the wheel, but didn't know how to use it except as a children's toy. Even though they built roads that to us scream out to have a wheel put on them, nonetheless they continued to drag things around. The society itself was blind to the possibilities. - Author: Walter Murch

#31. He squeezes his eyes shut and tries to steady his breathing, then he decides that's stupid. He's come this far, he's handcuffed to the bed, he's about to let a tattooed part-time drag queen in thigh-high leather boots fuck him. What's the point of trying for self-control? - Author: Richard Rider

#32. You can see wealth in people no matter what they're wearing. It's in the cut of their chins, a certain gloss to the skin, a drag and pause to their responsiveness. When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back. - Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

#33. I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself. - Author: Penelope Douglas

#34. You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth. - Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

#35. 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. - Author: Caitlin Moran

#36. Police," I say.
"Let's see your badge."
"I'm undercover. And I'm going to need that as evidence."
She hands me the spiff. I take a drag. "Yep, it's the real deal. You're busted. - Author: Mark Mills

#37. Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#38. I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space. - Author: David Rees

#39. I hate the attitude of, 'oh we already have a Lydia Lunch, so we do we need a Bikini Kill.' Well, there's like 2 hundered million all-male bands writting 'baby baby I love you, let me drag you around on my ankle.' Is that enough already? Duh! - Author: Kathleen Hanna

#40. Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing. - Author: Nick Earls

#41. Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work. - Author: Helen Garner

#42. You don't go through things with people and not love them for it. It's like those guys in the army who fight in muddy trenches and drag each other out of harm's way and are blood brothers for life because of it all. Only in our case, my mom and I face eviction notices and power shutoffs together. - Author: Lara Zielin

#43. I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. - Author: Henry Rollins

#44. Would have let me break the color code for shoes at work. These were borrowed from Indy's next door neighbor, who was Denver's top drag queen. Luckily, he had small feet; or I liked to think that way. Not that my feet were large. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#45. I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period. - Author: Tommy Wiseau

#46. What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else ... - Author: Barack Obama

#47. I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away - Author: Katherine Applegate

#48. I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours. - Author: Marsha Thomason

#49. In my most menacing tone, I firmly told her, I will drag your sleeping ass out into the sun, if you so much as drop a fang at my sister. Play nice. - Author: S.C. Stephens

#50. She sat beside him on the bench, and her presence troubled him. He was inside the atmosphere, or light, or scent she spread, as a boat is inside the drag of a whirlpool, as a bee is caught in the lasso of perfume from the throat of a flower. - Author: A.S. Byatt

#51. It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not. - Author: Mildred D. Taylor

#52. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism. - Author: Ellen Key

#53. An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#54. If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. - Author: Michael Andretti

#55. Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#56. I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past - Author: Tom Petty

#57. The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#58. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#59. Clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater. - Author: James Patterson

#60. But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer. - Author: Keanu Reeves

#61. I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood. - Author: Michael De Luca

#62. Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it's nice not to have to worry about bills. - Author: Keanu Reeves

#63. The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days. - Author: Kate Chopin

#64. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood. - Author: Stephen Colbert

#65. Having sex is easy," he ocntinued. "All you need to do is undress the woman. But it's what comes afterwards that's such a drag; such a load of nonsense! - Author: Anton Chekhov

#66. There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years. - Author: RuPaul

#67. The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming
and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music. - Author: Jonathan Cain

#68. It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon - Author: David Levithan

#69. It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone. - Author: RuPaul

#70. Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there. - Author: Alexis Arquette

#71. Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find. - Author: James Carville

#72. You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running. - Author: Terri Farley

#73. You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line. - Author: Mike D'Antoni

#74. There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later. - Author: Cees Nooteboom

#75. I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips. - Author: Jessicka

#76. Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. - Author: Nick Hornby

#77. As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real. - Author: RuPaul

#78. Mattie, I'm sorry to drag you away." "Don't worry about it. It's late. My mother always said nothing good happens after midnight." I barked out a surprised laugh. "Your mother, clearly, is not a Sidhe. - Author: Belinda M. Gordon

#79. I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us. - Author: Barry Gibb

#80. The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together. - Author: Andrew Bird

#81. The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working. - Author: Nick Woodman

#82. I love you, Derek!"
Jason tried to drag Haley back to her seat, but she fought him tooth and nail.
"I love you, Derek!"
"He knows, woman! He's known since the first inning. Let the man focus," he
said. - Author: R.L. Mathewson

#83. When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#84. And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last. - Author: Kevin Brady

#85. Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school? - Author: Terry Wogan

#86. For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag. - Author: Busy Philipps

#87. Because sometimes it's easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go. - Author: Shaun David Hutchinson

#88. 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. - Author: Frederick Wiseman

#89. Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?"
"Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch."
"Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul's Drag Race again? - Author: Nicole Peeler

#90. Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag. - Author: RuPaul

#91. If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need. - Author: Max Lucado

#92. Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag. - Author: Kyle Kinane

#93. All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. - Author: Alan Greenspan

#94. Lachie slaps his arms around his body and hugs himself when he comes out of the water that's thick with the spaghetti of dark, leathery seaweed.
"Does it not try to drag you down to the bottom?" I say.
"No, sure it's like being stroked by mermaids" says Lachie. - Author: Flora Kennedy

#95. It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood. - Author: Sophie Jordan

#96. You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining. - Author: Vince Neil

#97. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#98. No mother in my community has a more widely recognized hobby than bitching about her child's school. I've come to realize that for many, school is a real drag. It gets in the way of raising a professional athlete. - Author: Jen Mann

#99. A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that. - Author: Joan Jett

#100. Love will make you reckless. It can drag out parts of you that common sense and fear usually keep hidden away. Because love is selfless and selfish. - Author: R.S. Grey