Lugged Quotes

#1. My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

Kara Swisher

#2. Don't I know? Not like I haven't done this." He picked up the plant and lugged it with him, muttering, "Stand there, Shamus. Don't bother the new girl, Shamus. Don't back-talk me when I'm teaching, Shamus." Maeve raised her eyebrows. "Don't back-talk me even when I'm not teaching, Shamus," she said.

Devon Monk

#3. The attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.

Mark Doty

#4. We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dresssing the pole with more complexity and less discernible logic. He draped some kind of fur over it on Groundhog Day and lugged out a floodlight to ensure a shadow.

George Saunders

#5. Once unloaded, everything has to be lugged through

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Josh Groban

#7. Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

Joanna Macy

#8. You live in the past,' Kate said. 'You live in your grandfather's time.' But she was wrong. The past was not something we could live in, because it had nothing to do with life. It was something we lugged about, as heavy as a sack of rotting apples.

Helen Dunmore

#9. I was absolutely speechless. The most beautiful man I had ever seen ... IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, just said I was beautiful. I blushed when the reality hit me, and boy, did it hit me hard.

J.L. McCoy

#10. I came, I saw, I copied, and I left

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#11. I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride

James McBride

#12. Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

John Donne

#13. Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Paul Kantner

#14. Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.

George Clooney

#15. The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

Nicholas Carr

#16. Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

Diane Schwemm

#17. Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Brene Brown

#18. I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

Francesca Annis

#19. People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

George W. Bush

#20. If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

David Sills

#21. I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

Mpho Koaho