Drill Quotes

135 quotes by 123 authors

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked… — John Newcombe
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I… — Neil Diamond
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public… — Russ Feingold
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf
In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it — Jerry Sloan
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think. — Ferdinand Foch
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant. — Robert McKee
A hard drill makes an easy battle. — Alexander Suvorov
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to… — Louis P. Benezet
It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt,… — Andrew McMahon
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas… — Ranulph Fiennes
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies… — Dan Benishek
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle. — Karl G. Maeser
Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul. — Sri Chinmoy
If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the… — Paul Davies
A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of… — Al Ries
I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face… — Jack Handey
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth… — Jojo Moyes

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