Dropped Quotes
698 Dropped quotes by 524 unique authors
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Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion…
— Paul Nitze
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I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to…
— Katy Perry
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex…
— Vannevar Bush
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Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales…
— Stan Sakai
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Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man,…
— Jamie Foxx
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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious…
— Mark Twain
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Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates,…
— A.M. Homes
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I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a…
— Henry Wessel, Jr.
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I actually think I may be possessed with demons, I was dropped on my head as a kid.
— Unknown Author
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The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range…
— Patrick F. McManus
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I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started…
— John Bonham
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Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles…
— Unknown Author
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me…
— Sparky Anderson
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I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,
— Helen Clark
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The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
— Thomas Sowell
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ,…
— John Bunyan
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The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to…
— James E. Grunig
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American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
— Michael Pollan
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I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild…
— Stanley Kunitz
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I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me
— Susan Smith
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But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal…
— William Langland
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I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all…
— Stefanie Schneider
Who Wrote These Dropped Quotes
524 authors contributed a total of 698 Dropped Quotes, led by these top contributors: