Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."
Drains quotes
Drains
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Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours"
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"Activity without purpose is the drain of your life"
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling."
John Oliver
Comedian
"Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels."
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"I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time."
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"It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away."
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"For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain."
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"The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups."
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"It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this."
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