One drop of black blood and you’re black. That was the rule. That’s what kept the wall between whites and blacks was this one drop rule. So I was raised with absolutely no ambiguity about that.
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can’t get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, ‘Water, water everywhere – nor any drop to drink.’
For me, writing for kids is harder because they’re a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid’s not going to do that. They will drop the book.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can’t write, paint, make films without worrying about some faction or other whose ‘sentiments’ will be hurt!
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don’t need them they drop back.
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it’s responsible for a drop in standards.
I cry at the drop of a hat.
Singing and dancing will never grow old for me – I’d like to do that until I’m… actually, I think I’d like to drop dead onstage. I think that’d be just great.
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved – saved millions of American lives.
To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they’re all just language.
Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that’s really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It’s really a sight to see… or to hear!
I’ve never come from a lot of money. Going to college in New York was already a financial struggle for both my family and me, so to drop out and immediately put my faith in my drag career was a huge risk to take.
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ’ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there’s a moment of panic. On the other hand there’s a lot of control that users have.
When I go to colleges for talks, I encourage the students to drop out.
Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you may drop in yield until you build up the soil fertility – you need inputs for output.
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that’s the real joy.
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
I don’t know if there’s an actors’ slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they’d have to drop it on purpose.
I just love to see the crowd reactions when I drop certain songs. There’s some songs that you just know are going to pull out some serious emotions with people, and I love seeing that.
Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
There’s a lot of people in this game that wait for Paper Route, Dolph or Glock to drop just to get that new lingo and style and see what type of creativity we on.
I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.
I can’t live without knowing I have my extensions and ponytail. So I can run out the door at the drop of a hat.
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Politics is so much about serendipity that we’ve got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you’ve got others to turn to.
I am a beauty school dropout. At college, I cut my mum’s bob into a Spock hairdo and took off half my friend’s eyebrow when I was doing the waxing. I was better at makeup. Drop me in Selfridges, and I’ll be in the beauty department for hours.
If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I’d opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can’t break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Sometimes even a well-rested steak will lose juices when you cut into it. Sometimes a completely un-rested steak won’t spill a drop. But as a general rule, resting meat for about one-third of its total cooking time guarantees that more juices will stay inside than on your cutting board or plate.
I would say things like ‘I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!’ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‘That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.’
Nothing’s hipper than leaving the set of ‘Girls’ in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness – just a drop of it – does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.
I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn’t kill me to drop it all together.
Mad World’ hasn’t dated because it’s expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you’re leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you’re about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we’d see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it’s an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
I often use dropped D or C – I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Zika is spread by mosquitos. They are tough to control. It will bite four or five people at one blood meal. They can breed in the amount of water it takes to fill up a bottle cap or, theoretically, even a drop of water. You have to get rid of maybe 90% of them or more before you protect people.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends’ parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don’t want to name drop, but, I’ve known him since I was 6.
I would be lying if I said I’m not flattered being voted as the ‘Time’s’ Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.
