Drubbing Quotes

#1. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Stijn Streuvels

#2. I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

Tom Dunne

#3. Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

#4. Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.

Pedro Martinez

#5. A handicap parking permit is not a reward for a lifetime of poor eating habits ...

T. Rafael Cimino

#6. Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bertolt Brecht

#7. You ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.

Widad Akreyi

#9. It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

Jethro Tull

#11. Monday morning broke through, rubbing Sunday out of its eyes.

Cynthia Bond

#12. My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

Steve Jones

#13. I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

Oscar Wilde

#14. No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.

Mary Balogh

#15. His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Anthony Hope