Drilled Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
We drilled in the right place - we were simply 30 million years too late — Richard Bray
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
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
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself. — Raegan Butcher
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
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
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
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
I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.' — Chris Christie
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
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
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
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

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