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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. -- James Thurber
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. -- Paul Reiser
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. -- Jessica Savitch
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life. -- Cara Delevingne
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. -- Allen Klein
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. -- James Thurber
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. -- Victor Hugo
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. -- Mitt Romney
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. -- Jessica Biel
I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on. -- Harry Styles
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. -- Nelson Mandela
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. -- Vinoba Bhave
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. -- Benjamin Disraeli
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions. -- Meghan Trainor
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. -- Vince Cable
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. -- Joanne Harris
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' -- Angus Young
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles. -- Emma Stone
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? -- Peter Abelard
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second. -- Alan Moore
There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face. -- Lou Doillon
When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone. -- Rutina Wesley
Flow with change or be dragged. -- Holly Duckworth
Most of us are dragged toward wholeness. -- Marion Woodman
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter. -- Noel Gallagher
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions. -- D. H. Lawrence
Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away -- Jean McConville
She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination. -- S.A. Tawks
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. -- Alanis Morissette
I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud. -- Neil Simon
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months. -- Laurence J. Peter
Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in. -- William Gurnall
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... -- Hippocrates
An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face. -- Andrew Hussie
I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run. -- Adrian McKinty
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there. -- Frank D. Gilroy
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. -- Barry McGuigan
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power. -- Boris Johnson
I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet. -- Emo Philips
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. -- Jodi Picoult
Her sigh felt dragged from the depths of her soul. Great. Working for Bump again. -- Stacia Kane
You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again. -- Thomm Quackenbush
People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot. -- Arthur M. Jolly
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? -- Herman Melville
We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer, -- Sepp Blatter
How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death? -- Willie Nelson
Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here. -- Richelle Mead
Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store. -- Julian Assange
This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards. -- David Ervine
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. -- Neil Gaiman
Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot. -- Mira Grant
Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart -- Norman Vincent Peale
He was not going to be dragged into other peopleÂ´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst. -- Kate Ross
Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body -- Miyamoto Musashi
We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. -- Gerald Caiafa
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. -- Golda Meir
I'm going to start water skiing someday...as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat. -- Rita Rudner
I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees, -- Ryan Reynolds
You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too. -- Jodi Picoult
I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate. -- Greg Giraldo
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world. -- Rob Lowe
my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy. -- Louise Erdrich
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed . -- Diogenes
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. -- George Monbiot
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. -- Mary Antin
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night. -- Franz Kafka
I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean. -- August Wilson
The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked. -- Markus Zusak
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting." -- Vladimir Nabokov
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?' -- Jimmy Fallon
For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something. -- Mark Wahlberg
You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot. -- Harrison Ford
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try. -- Yiyun Li
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong. -- Ovid
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate. -- Mark Doty
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. -- Robert Frost
I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid. -- Mike Tyson
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers. -- Harold Ramis
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. -- Jerry Saltz
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations. -- David Riesman
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, "I still dream about you." "I have nightmares about you." I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside. -- Josh Lanyon
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it. -- Abbey Clancy
Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids. -- Malorie Blackman
Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing. -- Virginia Woolf
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality. -- Frank Kameny
Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable. -- Robbie Coltraine
Life ... is a burden. The day about to begin is an oppressive weight.... The erect penis is heavy, even heavier the hanging one. Even the most tender breast has to be dragged along. -- Jean Améry
Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree. -- Gertrude Stein
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media. -- Peer Steinbruck
Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. -- Greta Van Susteren
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. -- Jack Henry Abbott
Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer. -- Melina Marchetta
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. -- Eamon de Valera
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. -- Barack Obama
The only time early bloomer has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. -- Colson Whitehead
The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. -- Colson Whitehead
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God. -- Beth Moore
Alec dragged the heavy canvas bag out of the back of the van, dropping it on the sidewalkReady to go. He announcedLets kick some demon butt!Jace looked at him a little oddlyYou alright? -- Cassandra Clare
The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail? -- Chris Thile
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand. -- Loren Eiseley
In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that. -- Rick Riordan

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