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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. -- R. Lee Ermey
Drill here, drill now, pay less. -- Newt Gingrich
Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself. -- Alexander Suvorov
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! -- Edwin Drake
Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. -- Bill Maher
Wrestlers, you don't just get better from wrestling live. To improve technique, you have to learn it, then drill it. Drilling is key! -- Jordan Burroughs
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. -- Jeff Goodell
Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets -- Thom Yorke
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property. -- Jim DeMint
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. -- Mitch Daniels
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets. -- Richard M. Weaver
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master. -- Aldous Huxley
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more. -- R. Lee Ermey
Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm. -- Paul Quantrill
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. -- Jonathan Kozol
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. -- Alexis Carrel
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. -- Leonard Woolf
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after. -- R. Lee Ermey
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. -- Johnny Carson
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. -- R. Lee Ermey
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough. -- Brett Favre
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. -- Jessamyn West
If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there. -- Woody Harrelson
I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation. -- Jim Evans
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. -- Temple Grandin
There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women. -- Loretta Reynolds
You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit. -- John Newcombe
Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old. -- Alison Gopnik
Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. -- R. Lee Ermey
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. -- Ranulph Fiennes
The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life. -- Robin Roberts
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If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together. -- Donald Sadoway
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am. -- Debby Ryan
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out. -- James Nesbitt
A hard drill makes an easy battle. -- Alexander Suvorov
It's inspiration that counts, not the drill. -- Hugo Ball
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant. -- Robert McKee
We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil. -- Barack Obama
The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence. -- Carl Pope
If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic. -- Dennis Kucinich
If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. -- T.K. Naliaka
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court. -- Bobby Knight
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole! -- Theodore Levitt
You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. -- Alexis Carrel
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. -- Leonard Woolf
We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. -- Barack Obama
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..... a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra... -- Pamela Redmond Satran
If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells. -- Huston Smith
I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes. -- Dharma Mittra
Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout. -- Rick Majerus
You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five! -- David Spade
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan -- Jim Butcher
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle. -- Karl G. Maeser
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. -- Woodrow Wilson
Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes. -- Angus King
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think. -- Ferdinand Foch
In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it -- Jerry Sloan
Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul. -- Sri Chinmoy
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! -- Sarah
With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security. -- Lois Capps
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. -- C. S. Lewis
I'm saying is that I hope that you drill in with the same detail with his [Donald Trump] team as you're drilling in with ours. -- Robby Mook
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth -- John Merrow
With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security. -- Lois Capps
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters. -- Bernie Sanders
There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important -- Albert Pujols
In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon. -- Peter Coyote
I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells. -- Tom Monaghan
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one. -- Ted Solotaroff
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer. -- Kate Hudson
It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. -- Conor Oberst
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. -- Virgil Goode
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. -- Albert Einstein
I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say. -- Rush Limbaugh
I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say. -- Rush Limbaugh
I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill. -- Nelly Ben Hayoun
Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage. -- Robert Gottlieb
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. -- T. S. Eliot
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.' -- Jeff Goodell
When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do. -- Jen Lancaster
President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before. -- Craig Kilborn
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had. -- James Dyson
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. -- Jay Inslee
It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something. -- Brooke Shields
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. -- David Hackworth
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.... -- Anne Sexton
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks. -- Frederick William Robertson
You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants. -- Julie Ann Dawson
We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that? -- Marc Singer
I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had. -- Gwendoline Christie
Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes â?? NOT information about drills! -- Perry Marshall
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels. -- Barack Obama
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. -- Billie Holiday
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. -- William Cowper
Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife. -- Jojo Moyes
We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence. -- Carl Pope

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