Dropped Quotes

698 Dropped quotes by 524 unique authors

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… — Marsilio Ficino
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron… — Henry Ward Beecher
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been… — Harry S. Truman
The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and… — Hans Blix
Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the… — Francis Crick
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the… — Henry L. Stimson
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the… — James Stockdale
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money… — Gene Ween
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped… — George Gamow
Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy,… — Cecelia Ahern
My jaw dropped open. Holy crows...There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy… — Unknown Author
As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used… — Bobby Bowden
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on… — Jonas Mekas
I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. — Graham Coxon
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity it is that… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by… — Chelsea Clinton
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name. — Patrick Stump
I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility. — Vince McMahon
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. — Candace Parker
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22. — Nate Ruess
Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place. — Murray Walker
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of… — Elwyn Brooks White
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. — Rabindranath Tagore
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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