#dropped

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dropped #explore #fairly #first #form

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. ↗

— Candace Parker

#dropped #father #get #kids #male

I'm small, sleek and fast, but I can be lost, dropped on the floor, stolen, or chucked out a window at a moment's notice! To have my brain power in my small size should be enough. I'm brainy and beautiful, but two years from now I'll be obsolete! ↗

— Deborah Shucart

#brain #brain power #brainy #dropped #enough

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#addressed #could #count #deepest #dropped

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#cloth #dropped #earth #friends #grateful

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids. ↗

— Method Man

#champagne #dough #dropped #hands #holding

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#another #ceo #day #dropped #i

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#dropped #end #life #like #masks