Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Hackett

If I let it drag on it could get worse and worse and it could eventually become a major problem.

Sourav Ganguly

I don't think the entire team should be dragged into this.

I feel I went right to the end until someone else had to tell me that it was enough. It's fitting that I went down swinging. The Zamboni had to drag me off the ice.

However, a much larger drag seemed possible after the October surge, and a good portion of the rise will be offset by a gain in inventories in the quarter.

Darrell Armstrong

I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going to have to drag me off the floor.

Otherwise, the rear planter units would drag because they wouldn't lift high enough.

Our view is that home sales will slide through the summer, dragging housing starts down into the fall. But this is still no more than a forecast; mortgage applications are still very strong.

Niels Arden Oplev

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Billy Porter

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

Trade is a drag (on growth) and that tends to hit manufacturing harder than the rest of the economy.

Alexandra Adornetto

Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

Derek Blasberg

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

Roger Stone

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

Roger McGuinn

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

A. N. Wilson

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

Marsha Thomason

I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.

Xavier Niel

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Barry Ritholtz

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

Sheldon Whitehouse

We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.

David Beckham

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

Chris Mooney

To the extent that someone is there to keep dredging it up, it's going to be an albatross around her neck forever. Blagojevich is going to drag this out again. That's the real test. This is just a preview.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

Cornelia Funke

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

We view this as a fairy tale ... a story about damsels who have to fight off the dragons in their lives.

Those who have been unfairly dragging into this controversy have already suffered enough. It is but just for them to be vindicated.

We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.

Michael Mann

We don't want things to drag on too long and we would prefer this not to become entangled in the wider Doha discussions at the end of the year.

We have been dragged into a war with misinformation with great loss of lives.