Dropping Quotations

My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture the hearts of people. And it's all fraud; it's all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if it's proletariat behavior.

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.

Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

When I did 'Dancing with the Stars' I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

I was seventeen when my mother passed away, ... I was heartbroken. Nothing mattered to me anymore. I thought seriously about not finishing high school, even of dropping out of boxing. Not one day passes that I don't think about my mother. And to be honest, there are still times when it's a lonely world without her. But I feel that I was blessed to have her in my life, and I believe she's still looking out for me.

If we don't do something about it, more and more of our stocks are going to be dropping off from the index.

Luckily the bags don't hit back do they? They told me to tie my right hand to my head, I keep dropping my guard.

Mortgage interest rates aren't dropping because of the interest rate cuts, but because of the anticipated economic slowdown and the lack of inflation,

Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

Now that the dropping has stopped, when do we start with the moving back up? That is the big question.

I got him to the mat and kept dropping elbows on him. I kept hammering away at him, and he never really had a chance to gain control of the fight.

I don't even have to think about it anymore. He's catching it and he's doing the right things with it, whether it's dropping it off to the other big (man) or dunking it or throwing up a jump hook. He's doing everything wonderful.

If this is a cover your ass and it costs me a lot of money, I am not gonna be happy. I'm worried. You know that the market is dropping now.

Many of the plans that set out into this market, set out with expectations that they would have a larger base of beneficiaries. I do expect you will see some of the smaller, newer plans dropping out.

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder

When we shut down our missing persons operation, all of a sudden here they come... dropping in all these files. Now we have to re-task people. We're trying to work it in with our regular duties.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Simply ceasing activity or dropping production dramatically is not possible. However, many of us are looking at how we can turn fixed costs into variable costs, and options such as contract farming become all the more attractive.

Sean had a great first game and a great last game. In between he did OK, but was not as productive as I hoped. He had some trouble dropping the ball, as did some other guys.

Oliver Springs starts eight seniors, and this is their year to do it. They are the one up there at the top and they are the favorites to win this after dropping down from double A.

She slapped him, she was very rough with him, ... She was dropping some toys on his head and watching them fall off. She shook him up and down very vigorously. I was hysterical. I mean, there is no way to explain how I was. I just wanted it to stop.

She's not dropping out. She's taking an approved leave of absence to focus on her increasing responsibilities and live her life.

She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.

We were confused in the midfield. We talked before the game after dropping back to a 4-5-1, but we didn't execute it as well as we should have.

The only thing that matters is profit, ... This drop in the Nasdaq is long overdue. The real question is not why it's dropping but why it got so high.

I would urge the district attorney's office to give this a good hard look and, instead of worrying about protecting a conviction, consider dropping the matter entirely,

Given the current situation, where airlines, some of them in bankruptcy, are dropping and changing routes, you simply need to assume they forgot to call you if an itinerary changed or got canceled. Don't assume they'll take care of you if they do change the schedule, and don't assume that what you booked, especially on an award ticket, is what you will actually fly. It's a difficult time for airlines, and that makes it a difficult time for travelers.

GM is quickly and carefully reassessing its assets and acting on what to sell and what to keep. It's essential for GM to raise cash to prevent its debt rating from dropping further.

Given the strength of this (trial) court decision, the opponents to Proposition 71 should demonstrate their respect for the voters of California who overwhelmingly approved this initiative, and patient families who suffer every day with the advance of chronic disease, by dropping their intent to appeal.

I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to stay in touch with the leaders without taking any risks and dropping too much time. It was a good day for me.

If it were as negative as it appears on the surface, Microsoft's stock would be dropping like a rock, and it's doing just the opposite. The market is apparently saying, financially speaking, this is not a devastating event for Microsoft. Of course, as more news come out, that might change.

If it were as negative as it appears on the surface, Microsoft stock would be dropping like a rock, and it's doing just the opposite. It doesn't appear to be something that's material in nature.

Guys are dropping like flies. Hopefully one day will make a difference.

He rules the country by fear and you can see the Government here wanting to do the same thing, but what's the point? History has dictated you can have all the security measures in the world with all these people taking their shoes off and dropping their nail files into boxes before they get on to a plane and, guess what, the terrorist will be on the train. You can't make people be afraid all the time. It is no way to live your life and no way to govern a country.

When instinct kicks in now, he bolts into high gear and dashes invisible laps for a minute or two before dropping back to my pace.

He wasn't worried about dropping positions (in the draft). He just wanted to play, ... We never advertised it, but we know what he did.

He was dropping down and his slider was getting flat. It was staying in the same plane. He has to get it up high and get that ball to come down, so the hitters could swing on top of it like they were earlier in the game.

We made two passes, dropping our six bundles, and then returned for the seven-hour flight back home.

He understands what he needs to do to get himself ready. And I think he's very, very smart in what he's doing in dropping the weight and getting down to a point where it's going to extend his career. I think he understands that, even though he won't admit it.

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.

He's (Davis) tough, and he'd be real fun to watch if I was sitting in the bleachers and scouting, but he's not real fun when he's dropping 21 on you.

He's been dropping the barrel (of the bat) more than he has in the past. It was good to see him looking like the old Chance from Rosenblatt last year today.

There is a strong cold front dropping in. And Red Mountain Pass and Ouray may see as much as 4 to 8 inches, but I don't expect to see anything from Red Mountain to the state line.

He gave us some problems early on. But we started dropping our guards back on him as well and negated him. That's really where I thought our guys did a good job tonight. They adjusted when they needed to. Brubaker played hard for us. He was all over the place and getting a lot of loose balls.

There is no fundamental reason driving prices back up. Market participants felt that the 60 dollar level is an important mark and dropping below 60 is too much of a fall.

We took a fair bit of stick after the first two games and, to be honest, we were very critical of ourselves too because those performances simply weren't good enough. We were a lot better today but having said that, there were quite a few things I didn't like, such as dropping nine balls into the Galway goalkeeper's hands.

Jon would never talk about Britney's baby, ... But I see it as an example of our Hollywood limousine liberals dropping the ball on family values. Coming from South Carolina ... we don't knock up our pop stars.

My shot was just dropping tonight. My posts and my teammates were finding me when I was wide open. I don't usually get a lot of open looks like that, so it was kind of fun for me.

My timing and strength is just going to keep getting better. It's early, ... You lose that timing with the ball dropping and your leg coming up. Everything meeting together at that one split second. You probably lose a little bit of distance and hang time if you are not 100%.

I was dropping off my daughter and I saw the smoke and called the fire department.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

Stardust is still very healthy and has fuel left over. After dropping the Space Return Canister, the spacecraft was diverted from entering the Earth's atmosphere and placed in an orbit around the sun that could bring it to another comet in February 2011.

I reminded him that he would be able to score if he just kept being aggressive and sharing the ball. We need our point guard to do that. The guys all said how much they appreciated all those dimes he was dropping out there.

I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows off the radio and dropping my own voice in - hopefully this show will be better than that! Most of all, I'm looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about music and playing loads of music.

It is crazy. That's why every game is so important to us. You can't afford to be dropping games because we're not playing hard or we didn't come with the necessary intensity.

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

I was just dropping and getting lucky that they were throwing over the middle. I was lucky to catch it. Linemen don't have very good hands, so it's pretty good luck to catch that ball.

Judge Moore doesn't have very large coattails. He went too far when he refused to obey the court order, and that was sort of a turning point and his popularity has been dropping ever since then.

Responses to direct marketing are dropping in general. More and more people just throw mail away - especially unmarked mail - without opening it.

Our unemployment has been steadily dropping over the past several years. We are going from a time when people can't find jobs to the other end of the spectrum, where employers can't find people.

Our biggest predictor of a student dropping out is socially and economically disadvantaged background, ... Some of the kids who don't know if they have a roof over their head, it's sort of difficult to motivate them to be in school.

I think everybody is a little fatigued. Not that it's an excuse, but our shots just aren't dropping right now.

I think everybody is waiting for the employment data. If unemployment is still dropping when we've just had a report showing productivity is declining, then the Fed would be really concerned about wage inflation. That would mean we would be more likely to see more than one or two rate hikes.

I think Pete made the right move, because (Glenside) has been hitting us late in the last couple of games. It's pretty disappointing, especially after losing (the way) we did, taking the first two games (Saturday) and dropping them both on Sunday.

I think that's going to keep (gasoline and oil) prices from dropping dramatically.

I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they took that lead, we were in control the entire game.

It has been dropping quite dramatically, ... It's one of the factors.

I think we were timely in our shots dropping tonight, and that's what you gotta do if you're going to win a game like this on the road. It's a terrific win for us, no doubt about it.

I thought our receivers did a good job. I don't remember us dropping too many passes. It was fun. It was fun to play somebody else.

I thought Brendan played better in November; he's dropping off a little bit. We need Brendan to come back and play at a high level for us. I just don't have an answer why there is some slippage there.