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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. -- Lord Byron
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies. -- Robert Browning
Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. -- Roald Dahl
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather. -- Edmund White
On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree. -- William C. Bryant
Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time itself comes in drops. -- William James
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up. -- Christopher Dodd
If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather! -- Richard Simmons
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. -- Hosea Ballou
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. -- Frederick Buechner
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. -- Lucretius
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. -- Bruce Dickinson
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. -- Sylvia Plath
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. -- Maya Angelou
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. -- Percy Ross
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. -- Johnny Bench
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. -- James Lovelock
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. -- Gene Fowler
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. -- Langston Hughes
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. -- Charlie Haden
Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army. -- Henning Mankell
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. -- Alice Oswald
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. -- Swami Sivananda
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern. -- Joanna Lumley
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me. -- Siegfried Woldhek
Women's weapon, water-drops. -- O. Henry
Women's weapons, water-drops. -- William Shakespeare
The ocean is made of drops. -- Mother Teresa
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow. -- Robert H. Schuller
Six years-six little years-six drops of time. -- Matthew Arnold
When your mouth drops open, click the shutter. -- Harold Feinstein
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops. -- Matsuo Basho
Falling drops will at last wear away stone. -- Lucretius
Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops? -- Tom Robbins
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? -- David Mitchell
It drops down to a place I ain't going. -- Joe Teti
Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops. -- Amit Kalantri
Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2 -- MaryAnne Tebedo
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground. -- William Shakespeare
Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter. -- Gelett Burgess
Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples. -- A.M. Hodgson
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. -- Art Blakey
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out. -- Nirmala Srivastava
I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night. -- Reverend Malcolm Boyd
I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night. -- Reverend Malcolm Boyd
The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge. -- Robert M. Hensel
Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. -- William Goldman
Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops. -- Julia Glass
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness. -- Marcel Duchamp
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares -- Miguel Najdorf
In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours. -- Roald Dahl
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. -- William Goldman
Rain drops are not synchronized yet they create that sound worth listening to. -- Sameera Pappu
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops. -- Simon Le Bon
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Once darkness has what its wants, it drops you like a hot potato. -- Mark Andrew Poe
Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything. -- Jerry Coleman
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. -- John Ford
words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them. -- Freya Stark
If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? -- Ryan Goodrich
And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes. -- Lord Byron
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. -- Salman Rushdie
Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders. -- Martin Tyler
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. -- Alexander Smith
When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher. -- Louis Navellier
Then she says, "?I love you.' Like three drops of blood falling onto snow. -- Jenny Downham
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. -- Walter Scott
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
smiling while crying is not so hard....the damn hard is...hiding tear drops, with smiles -- Arafath Shanas
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate -- Tom Robbins
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. -- William Cowper
The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others. -- Pope Francis
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense. -- Robert Smith
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. -- Eric Hoffer
When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love -- Missy Robertson
The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City. -- Van Jones
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. -- James A. Baldwin
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. -- Lucretius
The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. -- Ayn Rand
Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure. -- Isabel Gillies
A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one. -- Frank D. Gilroy
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. -- Robert Plant
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. -- Donald Hall
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. -- Thomas Gray
Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain -- Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo
There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away. -- Dorothy Parker
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. -- Homer
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping. -- Dr. Seuss
I'm the sort of loser who succeeds really well and then drops a turd in the punch bowl. -- Christopher Titus
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. -- Ani DiFranco
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? -- John Dryden
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. -- Ramakrishna
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by. -- A. A. Milne
Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens. -- Toba Beta
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made you up inside my head. -- Sylvia Plath
A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off. -- Helen Exley
Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops -- Jay Electronica
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ... -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. -- William Shakespeare
You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit. -- Russell Tovey
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.... -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes -- Robert Lowell
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen. -- Georges Limbour
Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage -- Samuel Johnson

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