“The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.”
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic
Speculations (Essays, 1924)
“You cannot drag out Brexit for a decade.”
Brexit: Tusk says UK MEPs could sit for 'months or longer' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47946256 BBC News (16 April 2019)
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Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987), p. 231
1980s and later
Context: We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.
“I was dragged into this and really wronged, but the truth will come out one day.”
Bo Xilai (1949) former Politburo member of the Communist Party of China
Source: "Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai anticipated prison in letter to family" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/asia/china-bo-xilai-letter/index.html (23 September 2013)
Mike Murphy (political consultant) (1962) American political consultant
Twitter post https://twitter.com/murphymike/status/1038557357289033728 (8 September 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018
RuPaul (1960) Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuateros
Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)
