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“Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.”

Hands Seems Museums Listeners Orchestra Dropping Subscription

Author:Allan Kozinn

“I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

Ifs Knows World Ends Reason Moving Compelling Restless End Of The World Dropping Dissatisfaction Trajectory Compelling Reason

Book:The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.”

War Today Belief Crime Bombs Genocide Nazi Immoral Dropping Hiroshima War Crimes Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?”

Ifs World War Enough Moments Pain Hours Grief Rounds Circles War Of The Worlds Bombs Steady Dropping Static Often Is One Hour Overhead Trenches Bombers Physical Pain World War One

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.”

Way War America Sex Stuff Four Drug Horse Moved Heavy Dropping Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:John Lennon

“This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.”

People Ifs Made Matter Able Stuff Interesting Acting Seeing Blind Clarity Insanity Behave Dropping Some Interesting

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.”

Ifs Thinking Different Use Wife Worst Subjects Habit My Wife Clarity Bother Dropping

Author:Paul Reiser

“We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.”

Kids School Jobs Certain Community Streets Corners Hanging Out Dropping Our Community Street Corners Dropping Out Dropping Out Of School

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.”

Sound One Thing Ethics Catholic Work Ethic Dropping Protestants Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Steve King

“The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."”

Wells Children Said Real Kids Next Force Felt Teacher Air Effects Students Newspapers Hey Bombs Village Pilots Dropping Eric Air Force Icy Vietnamese Oh Well Music Teacher Dropping Bombs

Author:Jello Biafra

“I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.”

Ifs Book Happens President Wonder Ought Advantage Publishers Dropping

Author:Rick Moody

“I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.”

“Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.”

Children Littles Burning Classroom 1960s Dropping Acid Hippie

Author:Ronald Steel

“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Made House Objects Photograph Details Dropping

Book:Judy Fiskin

Source: Judy Fiskin

“A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.”

Littles Kids School Dangerous Becoming Warning Peril Dropping Dangerous Things Dropping Out Dropping Out Of School

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.”

Ifs Thinking Men Children Home Government School Asks Bits President Answers Powerful Support Innocent Hospitals Saddam Favour Hussein Polls Dropping Men Women Explosives Innocent Man

Author:William Blum

“When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.”

Writing Made Bigs School Left Lines Class Teacher Loud Priests Dropping Fart

Author:Brian McFadden

“When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.”

“If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'”

Ifs School Jobs Lows High School Planning Each Day Looking Forward Dropping Dropping Out

Book:The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

Source: The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.”

Tree Feet Pure Notes Dropping

Author:Virgil Thomson

“If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.”

Ifs World Want Writing Real Life Is Night Streets Bed Details Real Life Clock Shirts Pushing Every Night Dishes Exhausted T Shirt Dropping Alarms Folding Alarm Clocks Strollers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...”

Way Book Reading Library One Way Drag Bores Dropping Bookshops Bores You

Author:Doris Lessing

“There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.”

Long Whole Forget Shots Trade Clubs Queens Tempted Dropping Golfers

Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.”

Moments Past Talking Dropping Fading Recent Past

Book:Falling Man

Source: Falling Man

“We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.”

Way Feels Persons Might Walks Basketball Various Connected Dropping Good Way Playing Basketball

Author:Deborah King

“I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.”

People Thinking Reason Political Modern Poetic Discourse Strain Dropping Political Discourse Dropping Out

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Remember, the enemy comes to kill still and destroy. But now they're going to inspect themselves? Oh, what could go wrong with that? Yes, don't call us. We'll call you, they say. And that's really good because [Barack] Obama is standing by with his mighty phone and his mighty pen in case they stretch the truth a little. And they start dropping bombs.”

Littles Stills Remember Enemy Cases Standing Phones Barack Bombs Pens Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Sarah Palin

“It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm.”

People Way Has Beens Seems Periods Empathy Harm Dropping

Author:Paul Bloom

“Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.”

People Has Beens Real Economy Conditions Development Benefits Standards Areas Majority Population Fallen Adopted Inflation Dropping Market Economy Rural Areas Health And Education

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.”

Believe Has Beens Able Air Balance Surface Opposition Chemicals Afghanistan Introducing Syria Carpet Moderates Dropping Missiles Bombing Aircraft Helicopters Balance Of Power

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.”

People Wells Doe Country Training Bombs Canada Other Countries Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Justin Trudeau

“Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."”

World Made I Can Moments Care Kids Realizing Take Care Spending Luxury Waking Dropping

Author:A.C. Newman

“Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.”

People Should Years Kind Done Feelings Jobs Strong Sides Opinion Subjects Conversation Should Have All Kinds Bombs Very Strong Both Sides Dropping Atomic Bomb Strong Feeling

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.”

Want Looks Stills Kids School Three Natural Morning Minutes Ready Office Dropping Limited Time

Author:Christina Zilber

“Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.”

Thinking Children Parent College Relate Immigrants Dropping Dropping Out

Author:Mindy Kaling

“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.”

“One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!”

Long Bigs Might Worry Becoming Projects Lists I Realized Cooks Forty Dropping Relieved Stop Worrying Milestone Skiers

Author:Arianna Huffington

“There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.”

Knows Feels Trying Sometimes Bigs Air Land Balls Edges Sense Of Humor Balanced Flexible Dropping Juggling Scheduling

Author:Michael Franti

“A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.”

People World Believe Fall Religious Appearance Secular Dropping Beard

Author:Matisyahu

“The media has a lot of power, and everything I do is what I want people to see, whether it's putting out a new single, dropping a new album, doing a new movie or new collab with a designer - this is what I want people to see.”

People Want Media Albums Designer Dropping

Author:Tyga

“Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state. It`s more than a photo op. It takes consistency and reliability. And it certainly takes more than trying on make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works.”

Trying Years Country States Home Together Jobs Hours Neighbor Flying Insult Working Together Secretary Consistency Dropping Reliability Countries Working Together

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.”

Process Emotional Forgiveness Dropping Baggage Emotional Baggage

Author:Tim Fargo

“'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!”

Want Trying Made Said Film Bits Drama Green Piano Virgins Dropping Try Again New Zealand Jaw Dropping

Author:Ruby Wax

“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.”

World Has Beens Stills Bigs Growth Cases Amount Birth Happenings West Rate Population Dropping Population Growth Birth Rate

Author:David Attenborough

“In my view, what really counts here, as our political system falls apart before our very eyes, where voters really feel like they've been thrown under the bus, for good reason, and where they are dropping out of these two corporate-sponsored political parties.”

Feels Two Reason Eye Political Fall Views Party Corporate Thrown Voters Bus Political Parties Falling Apart Dropping Political Systems Dropping Out Thrown Under The Bus

Author:Jill Stein

“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but it's war.”

People World War Levels Killing Actresses War Of The Worlds Bombs Dropping Second World War Dropping Bombs

Author:Steven Knight

“We need banking. I mean, right now, there are so many places in America where the banks are not doing what they need to do because they're scared of regulations, they're scared of the other shoe dropping, they're just plain scared,so credit is not flowing the way it needs to to restart economic growth.”

Way Needs Mean America Growth Economic Right Now Shoes Scared Credit Regulation Banking Dropping Economic Growth

Author:Hillary Clinton

“A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.”

Way Writing Firsts Kind Moving Names Sides Careers Nice Mines Both Sides Dropping Steam Moody Npr Harding

Author:John Wesley Harding

“My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.”

Views Generations Notion Feminist Gender Activist Better Off Dropping Trans Theorists Continuum Binary

Author:Susan Faludi

“If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.”

Ifs World Film Concerts Dropping Musicianship

Author:Joe Berlinger

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