Droning On Quotes

#1. Pixie herself was too little to tell a proper story. She just said a whole jumble of stuff: 'Pixie did dancing, then Pixie did singing, then Pixie ate lots and lots of ice cream,' droning on and on about herself. 'Pixie did telling stories and she was boring,' said Baxter unkindly.

Jacqueline Wilson

#2. I fidget through class, barely paying attention to Mrs. Schumaker droning on about wagon trains and buffalo. I get it. Life on the prairie was tough. Churning your own butter? Yay for the Industrial Revolution.

Mick Bogerman

#3. When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Helen Mirren

#4. Her voice has always reminded me of bees droning flatly in the heat.

Lauren Oliver

#5. If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.

Rajneesh

#6. It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?

Robert Frost

#8. The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Elinor Ostrom

#9. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

George Saunders

#10. My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

Nick Harkaway

#11. This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

#12. What were you thinking?"
"Not much, clearly."I hear the exasperation in Kacey's voice.
"I don't know about you, Livie ... Sometimes you're as graceful as a one-legged flamingo in a pit of quicksand.

K.A. Tucker

#13. I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death's handmaidens.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Walter Kirn

#15. Cacophony of typewriter keys being pounded and typewriter carriages returning, phones ringing, men yelling and coughing, electric fans here and there droning as they hacked the unbearable heat into intolerable hot tufts.

Richard Flanagan

#16. Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.

John Steinbeck

#17. There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.

Wallace Stevens

#18. When the striped pole slips by I slide low in the saddle and give Kali room to go. One moment she's bottled up, and the next she's a stream of copper, her chestnut mane smacking me hard in the face while her strides lengthen and everything becomes a droning rumble of hooves and wind.

Mara Dabrishus

#19. When Malingeau drew himself from his long sleep, the music was still droning in his head. Christelle was already gone. She had taken care to scribble a line on a scrap of paper.
"I drank your body until my thirst was worn.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#20. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

John Donne

#22. To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray ...

Don Henley

#23. And you are?'
'Erm . . Professor N'gomo.' said Edith waving her badge in what she supposed was a casual way.

Anna Moore

#24. Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

Daisaku Ikeda

#25. I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Alice Walker

#26. Am I lost or just less found?

C.S. Lewis

#27. Zane winced at the thunderous voice inside his head; the weaker they were the stronger the father of his kind became. Since he did not care to find out if Blodbad's loud, incessant droning could render him both insane and deaf, Zane decided to make obtaining adequate nourishment priority number one.

Sharon Davis

#28. He was seeing the full extent of her failure - in the immensity of his own indifference. The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him.

Ayn Rand

#29. The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

#30. You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

Larry King

#31. If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#32. This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens