Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Holm

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.

We'll be fine. It was last night. That's over. Got a good night's rest. ... It wasn't that draining. It was just draining for the time being. It was an exhilarating experience. It just took a lot out of you.

We've shored up the foundation and addressed the moisture problem. The tile roof was all removed, and we were able to save three sides and replaced the others with duplicates. It wasn't draining properly.

Blaise Pascal

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Greg Chappell

Modest innings were draining him. He had no energy to give to the team, which was helping neither him nor us.

Doug Williams

I think the slow draining in the Sammamish watershed had everything to do with the record rainfall we saw in those weeks.

Harold Pinter

I think the world is going down the drain if we're not very careful,

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I've always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn't get easier. It's kind of a Band-aid, a little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

Jack Bruce

What we feel is that it's so special, and also so emotionally draining that it's not something we could do every day. We will play more, but where and when I'm not at liberty to say.

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it.

People need to understand that the money we put (at the Kingston site) now may go down the drain later,

Maria Sharapova

You can be playing great tennis the past week, you come out and no matter how good you might have been playing, the level of tennis goes down the drain simply because of the wind.

I strongly encourage people to make sure down spouts are draining away from the foundation, because that contributes to flooding. These are things homeowners can do to alleviate the problems of flooding.

John Fox

I think I was too drained by then to get too high. All of us were pretty drained. There was a lot of emotion. I've never seen a game quite like that. There were as big a peaks and as big a valleys as you could have. It was as good a football game as I've ever been involved in.

Riki Lindhome

Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

Rupert Evans

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

Pat Buchanan

Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a projected wetland and their natural habitat,

Derek Sivers

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

When you're on the power play you get the momentum rolling for you, even when you don't score. You drain the guys who are killing penalties.

Grace Napolitano

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.

We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.

Richard Rogers

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

Brennan Manning

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Jenna Morasca

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Gary Ross

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

We're thinking, 'OK, they'll drain it and she'll be fine.

Harry Shearer

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

John Cole

We just don't get a stop. Every time we get runs, we give them back. That's draining on the offense, and that takes its toll. We can't stop people, and that has killed us this year.

Avery Johnson

We've had a pretty good year up to this point. So we don't want to let all of that go down the drain because we got four guys injured.

It's a significant drain on things we need to do in this county.

Ryan Smyth

It's a draining feeling. It sucks losing. We want to make the playoffs.

It was a tough loss, it was draining at the time. But we still have our minds on a Big Ten championship and Ohio State is up next.