Drilled Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled…
— Phil Jackson
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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something…
— Haley Barbour
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people…
— Megan McArdle
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We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late
— Richard Bray
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When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
— Steven Pinker
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I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I…
— Bill Maher
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
— Raegan Butcher
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Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our…
— Emma Goldman
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Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'
— Chris Christie
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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can…
— Jennie Finch
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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
— Carter G. Woodson
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Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Drilled Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Drilled Quotes, led by these top contributors: