Top 35 Dragging Quotes

I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I’m writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that’s dragging them forward.

If you’re a writer, you know there are ways in which we don’t know what we’re doing at all. We’re working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you’re dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

In many ways I wish I wasn’t an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

I am just tired of writing about heroes that we’re dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It’s an overactive imagination or something.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.

I don’t mind having a big butt – they’re back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty’s not dragging on the ground.

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn’t theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, ‘Don’t do that to your skin! Don’t pull it like that!’ And I’m like, ‘Really?’

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

If you don’t like what you do, you’re probably dragging your feet.

I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn’t counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

People are sensible enough to know who’s dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

I don’t want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.

We will not be thanked by anyone for dragging the country out of the E.U. on a deal for which the public have shown no enthusiasm. For MPs that would be an abdication of responsibility.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It’s terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

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

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground – a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads – when they could relax with their families instead.

There’s nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid’s life.

I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don’t think there’s any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

I don’t like dragging people.

In the 2007 World Cup, Kelly Smith went to another level, scoring twice against Japan and dragging the team forward with an infectious enthusiasm. She changed the dynamic, and we all followed her lead.

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama’s watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they’re dragging behind them.

Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to expand.

A great immersion blender – also known as a hand blender or stick blender – can complement a well-equipped kitchen, offering a convenient alternative to dragging out larger appliances for many basic kitchen tasks.

You can’t drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn’t actually at the last mile if you’re the one dragging her to the finish line.

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.