Droned Quotes

#1. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

George Meredith

#2. I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

Ken Livingstone

#3. Reverend Rumsey's voice droned on. "... And Mrs. Livonia Butt's, for her generous donation of awards-winning butter, so ingeniously sculpted into frolicking hams... I'm sorry, that's frolicking lambs...

Julie Berry

#4. Also," droned Helen, "Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too." The printout

Robin Cook

#5. The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs' relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.

Ransom Riggs

#6. While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE ... TORTURE ...

Jeremiah Denton

#7. The animal is making quite a mess," the butler droned.
"Are you referring to the monkey, or to my nephew?" Fennington drawled, strolling into the room.
"Hm. How long did you lurk outside the room waiting forthat opportunity?" Bennett asked

Suzanne Enoch

#8. We will destroy you," the Flyboys droned. "You have no escape." That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these 'droids to say? "Talk about lame," Fang muttered.

James Patterson

#9. Your irritation is important to us," Cassie droned, looking at me upside down with her head tipped backwards over her headrest, "and will be exacerbated in rotation. Thank you for holding.

Tana French

#10. I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!

Bette Davis

#11. A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Richard Yates

#12. teacher droned on and on, lecturing

Ruskin Bond

#13. Pipers at the Edinburgh contest were using two-droned pipes up until 1821, when such pipes were forbidden, because they allegedly gave an unfair advantage over other competitors playing the three-droned pipe.

Alistair Campsie

#14. You are a monster." Kanin's deep voice droned in my head again, as I forced myself to move, to walk away. "You will always be a monster, there is no turning back from it. But what type of monster you become is entirely up to you.

Julie Kagawa

#15. Now the world has gone to bed,' Marvin droned, 'Darkness won't engulf my head, 'I can see by infra-red, 'How I hate the night.' He

Douglas Adams

#16. From them I had nothing to learn - one cannot cease to know what one does know.

Thomas Ligotti

#17. Do your worrying before you place your bet, not after the wheel stops turning.

Maxwell Maltz

#18. I'd like to look like a wife with two kids who's been married for ten years and been in love every single day of it.
- from Boo

Rene Gutteridge

#19. The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Samuel Johnson

#20. If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

Catherine Ndereba

#21. People know what they want because they know what other people want.

Theodor W. Adorno

#22. For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

Alexander McQueen

#23. There is no short-cut to awesome.

Zoe Winters