Virgil Thomson
Composer
"I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees."
Dropping quotes
Dropping
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Puns are the droppings of soaring wits."
Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over."
Daniel Roth
Rabbi
"Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo."
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"I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas."
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"Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water."
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"Constant dropping wears away stones"
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"One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up."
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"Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution."
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"Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter."
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"You can complete a project by dropping it."
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"And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings."
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"Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty."
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"The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
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