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Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars -- Rivera Sun
My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death. -- Julianna Baggott
Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us. -- Kevin Garnett
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines. -- Quvenzhane Wallis
At my restaurants, we have training drills before every meal. We talk about what we did yesterday that was great and what we can improve today. -- Danny Meyer
The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate. -- Kevin Garnett
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. -- Charisma Carpenter
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation. -- Adam Driver
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless. -- Gary Wolf
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix. -- Gaines Adams
I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in. -- Natalie Merchant
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. -- Michel Houellebecq
We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot. -- Kage Baker
You get to the rink, stretch for 10-15 minutes, go on the ice 20 minutes before practice starts and do goalie drills, practice for an hour, then stay on the ice for about 10-15 minutes to do extra shooting. -- Henrik Lundqvist
We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself. -- Tom Berenger
Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises. -- Irwin Redlener
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. -- Karen Thompson Walker
I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season. -- Grant Hill
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all. -- Stuart Appleby
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Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV. -- Doug Flutie
The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing. -- Shawn Mendes
Competitive drills enhance quickness. -- Bobby Knight
People don't buy drills they buy holes -- Zig Ziglar
More drills for poor readers do not work. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Do passing drills that come from your offense. -- John Wooden
Perform drills that force your players to think -- Bobby Knight
People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes. -- Theodore Levitt
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills. -- Richard J. Needham
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball. -- Don Meyer
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. -- Eminem
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. -- Terry Pratchett
Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance. -- Lorii Myers
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. -- Henry David Thoreau
The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse." -- Bill Cosby
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
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
When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension. -- Dolph Lundgren

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