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"I broke my back. I fell out of a window... some friends had a roof terrace on the landing before their apartment, and I fell off the drain pipe. It gave way, actually, and I fell three floors. I was told I might not walk again. So, for about four days,I was contemplating that as a serious part of reality. Then they operated, and I walked out of the hospital in about twelve days."

- Orlando Bloom

The Cold War has been the most irritating thing to me personally. Throughout my life we`ve been in the grip of militarism and military budgets and a mindset that dictates a war on Communism, and that`s a drain on the national energy. The real enemy is nationalism and patriotism.

- Oliver Stone

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

- John Belushi

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

- Margaret Cho

(On Orson Welles) I`ve never liked Welles as an actor, because he`s not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the drain, you see, that`s when he croaks. In my eyes he`s an infinitely overrated filmmaker.

- Ingmar Bergman

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they`re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren`t, they wouldn`t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

- Al Lewis
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Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

- David McCallum

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

- Wim Wenders

We are sucking out all the debris so in the next rain they can drain.

- Doug Jones

We are tied with Detroit for the biggest population drain.

- Justin Jeffre

It`s a talent drain,

- Bill Miller

The need for urgency in resolving this issue should be apparent, ... A number of neighbors have septic systems that are constantly malfunctioning due to heavy rains, roots systems and deteriorating drain fields.

- Robert Muller

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren`t so nearly universal, God knows what I`d be. A drain on the State, I shouldn`t wonder.

- Donald E. Westlake

It became a very big drain emotionally and financially, ... Worrying to death every time the phone rang, fearing somebody had been shot, poisoned or beat up, you get to the point in your life when you think, `I can`t do this anymore.`

- Anthony Wilson

No arms, no legs, no gallbladder. Just a little drain damage.

- Jeff Lewis

As we face coming challenges like possible base closures and unfunded federal mandates that drain our budget and loss of vital services, we must assure our quality of life in Maine remains high, ... While many in Maine pay a high percentage of their income in taxes, others are not paying their fair share. That has to change.

- Deborah Hutton

Be a fountain, not a drain.

- Adnan Kassar

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

- Al Hartkopf

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

- Amy Coleman

Bernie: I`m sorry I am so late. Bollocksed up at work again, I fear. Millions down the drain.

- Andy Nota

It is a drain,

- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The longer you ignore these issues the greater the drain on your energy levels. Identify them and take action now.

- Antonio Parra

There`s a whirlpool developing with a drain down at the bottom, and no one is sure where it goes. It just seems to be swirling faster and faster, and everyone touching this thing is afraid they`re going to be sucked in.

- Armando Cobo

We came within four minutes of winning it and then it was a whole year`s work down the drain. It didn`t half hurt for a while but we`ve shown resolve this season and, hopefully, we can see it through.

- Augie Ghio

I didn`t voluntarily drain the lake.

- Avner Shalev

On one side, they put a storm drain box that runs through the back to Reed Canal. Why did I end up with a retention pond?

- Barbara Richardson

I can`t do anything about the water at the No. 3 tee, ... It`s because the water level at the creek is higher than the groundwater and you can`t drain wetlands.

- Barry Burns

Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

- James Gould Cozzens