Dropping Things Quotes

#1. I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Joshua Lederberg

#2. Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I want her to be happy, and she's most happy with you. Maybe this will make up for ... past mistakes." He shook his head and returned to his normal idiocy. "So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole trip.

Julie Kagawa

#4. But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Arkin

#5. I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Matt Smith

#6. I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

Gilbert Gottfried

#7. One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

John Zorn

#8. Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

James S. Coleman

#9. I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Romain Gary

#10. I have never known this kind of peace. Never known this kind of comfort. And sometimes I am afraid," he says, dropping his eyes, "that my love will terrify you.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

Frank Zappa

#12. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

Dave Barry

#13. I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

John Lee Hooker

#14. Wake me up if you see anything alarming."
"Like ... ?"
"Like an airplane dropping on our heads or a band of marauders on the side of the road. Little things like that.

Summer Lane

#15. On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

Edward Conlon

#16. When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

Bill Cosby

#17. When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.

John De Ruiter

#18. BDSM is about dropping the pretenses; I want you completely exposed.

Sierra Cartwright

#19. The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax." ... "Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.

Barbara Elsborg

#20. Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!'

Linwood Barclay

#21. 90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort

Nitin Yaduvanshi

#22. And when the lessons 'appear'..
The 'intensity and clarity' is jaw dropping..!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#23. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?

Matt Taibbi

#24. The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.

Roshan Sharma

#25. You don't worry about dropping the eggs until you're almost home.

Stephen King

#26. Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

Guy Finley

#27. Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

Robert Wyatt

#28. Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Susanna Kaysen

#29. The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

Matthew West

#30. One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#31. Then I grew
into my ugly,
said plenty,

dropping quarters
at the coin laundry.
The sound of water

turning over water
was a comfort,
the sound of someone

else's things.

Collier Nogues

#32. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something?

Susanna Kaysen

#33. Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.

Amanda Bouchet

#34. When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Michael Owen

#35. I swear you are my fucking dream come true."
It's amazing how he can take the sweetest things, throw the word "fucking" in the middle of it, and I could melt into a puddle at his feet. If my panties weren't already off, I'd be dropping them after hearing him say that.

Georgia Cates

#36. People tell me things they shouldn't. Things they ought to be powdering over, shoveling underground, facts they ought to be stuffing into a carpetbag before dropping into the river and quietly drowning.

Lyndsay Faye

#37. There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.

Justin Trudeau

#38. It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

Jeffrey Bernard

#39. You can do your best and then, if things don't go your way, still become unconstructively upset, in a way that hinders your ability to bounce back. Dropping the attachment is the real trick.

Dan Harris

#40. I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

David Carradine

#41. Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.

John Milton

#42. Those of us who fought the crypto wars, as we call them, thought we had won them in the 1990s. What the Snowden documents have shown us is that instead of dropping the notion of getting backdoor government access, the NSA and FBI just kept doing it in secret.

Bruce Schneier

#43. Aces," Carswell Thorne murmured. Dropping his feet to the ground, he leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?

Marissa Meyer

#44. Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Plutarch

#45. What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Stacey Snider

#46. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.

Courtney Maum

#47. Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

#48. I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

Snoop Dogg

#49. I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my 'I'm in great shape' bubble.

Andrea Smith

#50. Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

#51. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Herbert Benson

#52. You're gay," wash stated.
Rhodes nodded, a short jerk of his head, dropping his gaze to his beer.
"As in, you-like-men gay."
Still eying his beer, Rhodes gave an affirmative shrug.
"As in, you like-to-fuck-men gay."
"Yes!

Katie Allen

#53. You women are all the same. You worry about the wrinkles and the half stone and your boobs dropping, but you don't worry about the sparkle, and that's the best bit. You shouldn't let that go.

Elizabeth Noble

#54. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

David Levithan

#55. And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#56. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

Amy Tan

#57. She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

Maisey Yates

#58. My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

Joan Rivers

#59. Not me." He bent his head, voice dropping to a husky whisper. "Never me.

Alyxandra Harvey

#60. Mike Hawk!" Bennett practically yelled at me, dropping his hand. His eyes were red from laughing. "How am I supposed to keep it together over that? That's like meeting a fucking unicorn.

Christina Lauren

#61. He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?"
"Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.

Elle James

#62. For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Lauren DeStefano

#63. Shane:is your distant cousin jack the ripper dropping in for coffee.
eve:screw you collins

Rachel Caine

#64. Rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Elizabeth Bowen

#65. If I were God, it'd be a whole different story, dropping fruit at will. Let them eat apples.

Trebor Healey

#66. Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

George Wald

#67. Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.

Sunday Adelaja

#68. 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

Adam Kluger

#69. I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

J.G. Ballard

#70. When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.

Iyanla Vanzant

#71. She switched the headlamp on and saw bats clinging to the side of the cave inches from her face. Someone whimpered. She supposed it was her. She switched the lamp off and played out the rope, dropping more slowly, trying to control the whimpering.

Janet Evanovich

#72. The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs on civilian areas, on Sunni cities. There will likely be a response with car bombings here in Baghdad, and this could be a long fight.

Richard Engel