Drag Quotations

I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.

We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

It's such a drag to make a movie.

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag - on economic growth and job creation.

We're going to play really long tonight. They're gonna have to drag us off the stage tonight.

We found that a slick truck can also be on the edge in the draft. We found last year that we want a fair amount of drag on it because during the race, drag means grip. There's kind of a fine line. I think you want to build a truck that has a little bit of drag.

Unions drag down business, growth is slower, and right-to-work laws weaken the unions. So when the unions are weaker, you tend to have more economic growth.

Usually if you have a shift on, they're paid to hit, not paid to bunt. That's a guy that can hit the ball out of the park with any pitch. With Giambi, if he takes a drag bunt, thank you for the single.

U.S. Steel was a continual drag on the economy for the next 50 years and caused substantial harm,

We're expecting housing to be flat in the second quarter and a drag on economic growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter.

We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.

We're getting higher and higher oil prices each day and you'll continue to see a larger drag on the economy through the summer months.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

A Rubik's cube is equal to a drag queen. It's really colorful, but I don't wanna do it.

This will provide some offset to the drag caused by the hurricane's direct damage and flooding, which, along with the massive amounts of money being deployed in the affected area, suggest that the ultimate impact of Katrina on GDP might prove more fleeting than first thought.

The only question is whether the judge may allow the case to drag out a bit further or whether he's going to force some action this spring.

The fact that people were actually talking about nuclear- bunker busting for the first time is what scared people. This is going to drag on for months and months and months.

We used to joke that if you go into labor we'll drag you out to the sidewalk.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

We have had to drag this administration kicking and screaming to get additional funding for border security. If he is finally serious about securing our borders I say 'Welcome sir, it's taken you long enough,

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

The price of oil is acting as a natural drag on the U.S. economy and the global economy. It creates a great deal of investor uncertainty, ... as earnings reports start coming in, it's going to be what companies tell us about the next three quarters that determines if investors get off the sidelines.

Light sweet crude is over $45 a barrel now, and that's a big drag on various parts of the economy. I think at some point, the price of oil falls and that sets off a rally in the market.

Lend America is extremely pleased to be a sponsor of the most rewarding, tradition-rich drag race venue in the world, NHRA. As a businessman, I look at NHRA and its demographic and know Lend America can provide a valuable home loan service to fit the needs of the audience. I think it's a win-win all the way around. Being a racer myself, I look forward to continuing our high-profile association with NHRA and the increased brand awareness through the maximum exposure that each national event provides.

Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.

So I set it in a bar and made him say, 'Hey, I'm a drag when I've had a few drinks, you know?' While I was careful to give him ownership of the fact that he was ranting, it's certainly my beliefs. To me, the presidential election was a smokescreen, a diversion. From my point of view, the engine room for what's wrong is in Congress. That's really the connection between the people and government.

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

She grabbed me with her other arm, and my brother tried to drag me, but I ran way. I didn't even look at my own child.

She has a lot of skills at the plate. She hits for power but she can drag bunt and she has amazing speed. She's a threat to run all the time and she creates a lot when she gets on base.

Mount Rainier offers drag and drop CD rewriting and on-the-fly formatting of the disc, making the CD the ideal floppy disk replacement.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

Moreover, the four motors of consumption -- that is wages, inflation, unemployment and consumer confidence -- are on a downward trend and should drag spending down.

More and more human resource executives are coming to the realization that they can no longer drag their heels on hiring decisions. If they do, it is increasingly likely that the candidate will be off the market before the offer is made.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

No good divorce attorney pads their bills or needs a case to go longer. I have no incentive to make a case drag on.

On one hand you have very strong signals from businesses services, but on the other quite weak ones from the retail sector. That's going to drag overall services growth down.

If we have to drag them to school, to show them what the value of education is, there is no way we can teach them, by them skipping school,

I got to know (Akers) in the Pro Bowl, and it's tough to see a guy go down like that, ... I know when I pulled my hamstring, there was no way I was going to kick again in the preseason. I just told David, 'Hey, get healthy. Don't rush it and let this drag out to be a four-or five-month deal.'

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

I don't know for sure, ... but I have to wear gloves because my knuckles drag on the ground.

I don't believe it would arise to the level of drag racing because I don't think the other car was participating.

I believe the majority of Americans don't want a chief executive who spends more time huddling with lawyers than he does performing his job. People don't want this travesty to drag on.

I broke that window out and yelled in there to see if I could at least hear somebody, maybe drag them out through that window, but nobody answered.

Im a realist, ... We dont want to drag down the company. Most people I talked to are OK with paying for some of their health care. Its not like we wont have good coverage.

I have a feeling it's going to be a knock down, drag out. It's two teams that are pretty close. Whoever plays the best, that's what it boils down to.