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Quotes About Drilled

Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.
~ Barry Gardiner
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.
~ Ron Chernow
I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people. I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
~ Giles Coren
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
~ Buzz Aldrin
When the Alvarezes went looking for cores the company had drilled in the area, they were told that they'd been destroyed in a fire; really, though, they had just been misplaced.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
We drilled our drinks onto the checkered-tile floor. And for that moment, at least, I felt like the luckiest man alive.
~ Barack Obama
In no time, the platoon were on their feet in front of him, formed up into two ranks, and it struck him suddenly, and probably for the first time in his military career, that these men with their drilled precision were dead parts of dead machines that didn't produce anything.
~ Joseph Roth
I think I worked out in my head it's something like 75 training sessions before you've got them pretty well drilled. You're not going to get that in international football so you're relying on their intelligence and the ability of the players to slot in.
~ Steve Clarke
Here, inmates would spend seven days and six nights being drilled on vacation etiquette. For example, they'd be taught how to read speed-limit signs; how to park within the parallel lines of a parking space; how to drink and dispose of alcohol; how to vomit inconspicuously; how to steer a Jet Ski and chew gum at the same time.… The drill instructors would be selected from an elite pool of former Highway Patrol troopers, ex–Navy SEALs, and retired tour guides from Epcot.
~ Carl Hiaasen
But he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it.
~ Herman Melville
He brought justice to all kinds of criminals. The rule had been drilled into him over and over:'Never let it be personal.' This was as personal as it was going to get.
~ Christine Feehan
There remained a hole drilled through his heart.
~ Norman Mailer
drilled directly down over the meteorite. Then I drilled multiple cores only a few yards on either side. You can't get any closer." "Just asking." "The point is moot," Norah said. "Brine interstices occur only in seasonal
~ Dan Brown
I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
~ Bobby Bowden