Top 100 Quotes About Dragging
#1. Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
Deb Caletti
#2. If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."
Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who was dragging her feet, as they fell in behind Deb. "Are there going to be snacks?" he
asked. "I do my best work with snacks.
Sarah Dessen
#3. Parminder's rage crashed over her like a tidal wave, dragging Sukhvinder with it, so that she was unable to find her feet or right herself.
J.K. Rowling
#4. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
Walter Isaacson
#5. You practically pulled me to the wedding chapel by my dick!" That's not even close to true either. Flashes of dragging Will toward the stairs that lead to the chapel while Will followed, flushed and laughing, burn in his mind. Maybe
Leta Blake
#6. Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward
To sit tonight with the warm children
Naming the pretty kings of France.
John Crowe Ransom
#7. I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
Amanda Burton
#8. Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. a storm that walked on legs of lightning,
dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.
Ted Kooser
#10. We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.
Ernst Toller
#11. Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down
Sunday Adelaja
#12. The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.
John Steinbeck
#13. A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#14. If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.
Magic Johnson
#15. I liked it better when you were dying," Allie said. "You didn't bitch so much." "Look sharp, Allie. I think you missed a pothole back there. You don't want to break up your streak of dragging me over every one." Allie
Joe Hill
#16. Luck," Jeremy scoffed softly. "There's no luck."
"Then what?"
"Your feet take you where you need to be."
I thought about this. "My feet have taken me to some pretty rough places."
"That was your dick, dragging your feet along with.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!
Dennis Miller
#18. No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
That round and round still turns with onward might,
Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
Of an unknown hereafter.
Charles Cowden Clarke
#19. The world has a way of dragging down our mood.
Dan Groat
#20. The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#21. In addition to being an ass and a pompous prick, he was a knuckle-dragging, potentially mouth-breathing Neanderthal who felt some proprietary ownership over a younger woman he barely knew and who hated him.
Sylvain Reynard
#22. An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.
Pancho Segura
#23. My courage was as thin as silk, but I held it around me like armor and urged myself up the stairs, dragging the remains of my dignity.
Jodi Meadows
#24. Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins
#25. I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them ... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
R. Kelly
#26. The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.
Warren Mundine
#27. He fished steadily, trying to fight down a dragging, aching sense of loss, wondering how one's brain should know all the sensible answers while one's emotions longed for the unattainable.
M.C. Beaton
#28. Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand.
Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation
teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
Terry Tempest Williams
#30. That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.
Teri Hall
#31. She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#32. Not much of a morning person?"
"Such a useless time of day," she said, dragging herself upright and taking the cup. "Can't sleep. Can't steal.
Victoria Schwab
#33. I think I need to break up with my brain. It's going crazy and dragging me down with it. I
K.P. Haigh
#34. What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?
Seneca.
#35. You're so beautiful," he says, dragging his hands through my hair. When our mouths meet, it's less desperate, less frantic than before, because we know we have all the time in the world in front of us. No more roadblocks, no more missed opportunities, our future starts now, together.
Heather Leigh
#36. We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
Werner Herzog
#37. If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
Victor Koo
#38. You're easily distracted, aren't you?" Ty deadpanned.
"Not really," Zane said smoothly, dragging one hand down Ty's
chest. "I'm still focused on you.
Madeleine Urban
#39. My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Colum McCann
#41. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It's like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.
Camilla Gibb
#42. Everything is killing him and yet his life just keeps on dragging; the morning comes and here he is, awake again. Alive.
Kate Tempest
#43. When he looked again, Ty had Zane by the hand and was dragging him toward the old Mustang. Zane only managed to stop Ty's excited ramblings by grabbing his face and kissing him. Harrison
Abigail Roux
#44. Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
Danny DeVito
#45. Don't overthink it, honey. Life's too short for that shit," he said, his lips grazing my skin. Every muscle tightened in the most delicious way, and his thumb, it was still swirling, still dragging out an array of sensations. "I like you. That's all.
J. Lynn
#46. Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?
Robert Genn
#47. It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
Antoine Fuqua
#48. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."
"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.
Amanda Bouchet
#49. There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness ... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#50. The I-Remember-Whensters lumbered in with their musty catalogues of the bygone, dragging IVs of distilled nostalgia behind them on creaky wheels,
Colson Whitehead
#51. I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#52. The way he looks at me, and touches me all the time ... It's like he's restraining himself from hog-tying me and dragging me out to the woods.
Kelly Oram
#53. But how could she trust herself to keep her footing? She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate.
Edith Wharton
#54. The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it will
do its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet's tail of memory and hope and
talent and love into the marble hall of commerce.
Tobias Wolff
#55. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
Alan Beck
#56. Jebediah was dragging Alyssa down, chaining her to the boredom and mundaneness of the human realm.
She must be set free.
A.G. Howard
#57. If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character. Is he giving up too easily? Has she been taking it too long? Are there too many scenes where he's thinking and not doing? - James Scott Bell
Anonymous
#58. Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this
Ann Coulter
#59. Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.
Gary D. Schmidt
#60. I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.
Donald Miller
#62. Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.
C.W. Gortner
#63. Careful, Miss Cavanaugh," he whispered. "You don't know what you're asking." He lowered his face to her neck, dragging his lips along her skin up to her ear. "If I steal more from you, if I give you more, I'll want it all and won't let up for a very, very long time.
Madison Thorne Grey
#65. If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.
Leon Brown
#66. I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground.
Miranda Lambert
#67. Healthy doubt encourages us to bring our questions to God; toxic doubt drives us away from him. And healthy doubt makes an appearance for the short term, ultimately bringing us to a deeper place with God, while toxic doubt consumes us and lingers on, dragging us down day after day, year after year.
Kasey Van Norman
#68. top-down chains of command are not particularly efficient: they tend to promote stupidity among those on top and resentful foot-dragging among those on the bottom. The greater the need to improvise, the more democratic the cooperation tends to become.
David Graeber
#69. There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.
Florence King
#70. How was it that time only flowed in one direction, implacable and impersonal, dragging everyone with it, and couldn't be stopped and turned back to that one moment?
Nicci Gerrard
#71. I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.
Fedor Emelianenko
#72. Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul.
Virginia Woolf
#73. Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.
James Branch Cabell
#74. Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
Ernest Bramah
#75. One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.
Swami Vivekananda
#76. The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
Peter Dawson
#77. That's an unusual name," I muttered. "Yeah," he agreed, dragging me down the luxuriant hall toward the elevators. "I kind of like it," I blurted, because I did. But after I blurted that I kind of wished I didn't. "I can die happy," he murmured.
Kristen Ashley
#78. I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such
Vladimir Nabokov
#79. There was an anchor, tied around both of his ankles, and it was taking him deep, into black fathomless depths, drowning him slowly but surely.
I didn't tell him that he was dragging me down with him.
R.K. Lilley
#80. Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation.
Gail Carriger
#81. He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.
Dragging him with her!
V.S. Carnes
#82. You get caught up in your chaos, you don't realize just how much you're dragging everyone along with you.
Kristen Ashley
#83. I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, "WTF is my problem?!" the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you've been dragging around without even realizing
Jen Sincero
#84. A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn't having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we'd have to move!
Steven Gerrard
#85. I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
Aeschylus
#86. She had once met an old man up near Kincardine who'd sworn that the murdered follow their killers to the grave, and she was thinking of this as they walked, the idea of dragging souls across the landscape like cans on a string.
Emily St. John Mandel
#87. An eerie silence has descended over the house. Every few minutes, I hear a grunt and the scraping sound of a box dragging along the floor. Other than that, there's nothing. It's like the silence is the actual articulation of the emptiness we all feel.
Siobhan Davis
#88. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.
Christopher Moore
#89. You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
Lemony Snicket
#90. I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
Teri Hatcher
#91. He hooked his fingers under the seat of my chair, dragging me closer to him.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#92. Nixie, every party is an orgy waiting to happen."
Nix opened her mouth, then closed it, dragging Neomi and Mari away. "Well, you can't argue with reason, can you?
Kresley Cole
#93. I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.
Christopher Rice
#94. TIME WAS MY worst enemy. Nothing good ever came from time. It passed too quickly - good moments and happy memories gone in a blink. Or it passed too slowly - bad experiences and unhappy circumstances dragging for an eternity.
Pepper Winters
#95. Bit it was her scent that just about killed him. Clean skin. Woman. And something more - something that made him feel like dispensing with five thousand years of civilization, dragging her off to a cave somewhere, and filling her with babies.
Pamela Clare
#96. I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.
Enid Bagnold
#97. Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. But he knows New York. He doesn't know Alicante -
Cassandra Clare
#98. Fucking holidays, William thought. Occasions to rethink your life, ostensibly, but how were you supposed to do that when other people kept dragging you back toward whoever you used to be?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#99. It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
China Mieville
#100. Valten's blood boiled at the thought of Ruexner holding Gisela, of him taking her by force, dragging her away from underneath Valten's nose, from his own home.
Melanie Dickerson
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