Draining Quotations

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

It's important to salt the tomatoes before draining them because that helps pull out the water. Fresh herbs, some garlic and pepper will also enhance the flavor.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.

If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

We'll be fine. It was last night. That's over. Got a good night's rest. ... It wasn't that draining. It was just draining for the time being. It was an exhilarating experience. It just took a lot out of you.

We've shored up the foundation and addressed the moisture problem. The tile roof was all removed, and we were able to save three sides and replaced the others with duplicates. It wasn't draining properly.

She's only 5-7, but she has the strength underneath. She got most of her points off inside baskets, but the last four or five games she took her game outside. Against Bellows Falls she stood in the deep corner and she kept draining threes.

Modest innings were draining him. He had no energy to give to the team, which was helping neither him nor us.

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

What we feel is that it's so special, and also so emotionally draining that it's not something we could do every day. We will play more, but where and when I'm not at liberty to say.

He's 230-some pounds, he's solid, he's fast, he's strong. To me, he could go another eight years. ... It's a hard sport. It's tough on your body. It's draining being overseas for six months out of the year, and maybe it's time for him, if he really wants to call it quits.

It is nice to get a win at the end of a difficult week. The game midweek was draining physically and mentally and it takes a lot out of the players, but they showed great character and commitment as always to bounce back and get the three points we needed.

It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.

I think the slow draining in the Sammamish watershed had everything to do with the record rainfall we saw in those weeks.

It is an emotional, draining year. And that's always a concern for you as a coach, especially when you are dealing with guys who go through it for the first time.

I think everyone's going to find it tough. It's a mentally draining tournament. They've been playing a lot and with jet lag, it's going to be tough for them, no doubt about it.

Our team feels really good about itself right now. For any other team to lose their best player in pre-game warm-up, that's emotionally draining and these guys really responded.

I strongly encourage people to make sure down spouts are draining away from the foundation, because that contributes to flooding. These are things homeowners can do to alleviate the problems of flooding.

We can't get at the ceiling without draining it and building scaffolding. This is a huge project. It is always a big deal when you drain a pool. A large part of the expense is to build and then take down the scaffolding.

We had a tiny celebration on the ice and then got on the bus and went home. This is a physically draining tournament. Our conversations have centered on the games at hand, not looking down the road. This team is all business.

There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.

What's draining is that every day you're up early and there's no sleeping in. Each day it's getting harder and harder to wake up. We can't control any of that and unfortunately we didn't get to finish and so I'll be up early again.

We just don't get a stop. Every time we get runs, we give them back. That's draining on the offense, and that takes its toll. We can't stop people, and that has killed us this year.

We talked about my knee and took a few X-rays. After looking at the X-rays, we decided it would be a good idea to drain the knee. This draining is to make sure there isn't any infection and that I'm healing properly. Overall everything looks positive.

Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment that has allowed this radicalism to exist. The key to success is changing the environment to make radical Islam completely unacceptable. . . . It's not just draining the swamp. You have to poison the sea.

There's nothing, nothing from anyone. We still say 'No news is good news,' but hearing nothing is pretty rough, and emotionally draining too.

Things like this typically bring down a lot of small companies. It's (financially) draining and it has impeded our growth considerably. If this were a weaker product line, our company wouldn't have survived.

The water is not draining off the landfill like it should.

Competition for entertainment projects has become increasingly competitive and the state legislature provided Georgia the tools necessary to attract these high-paying, creative, non-resource draining economic development projects. Our incentive package enhances an already strong slate of assets and we are seeing great results.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

The bottom line, however, is that, while immigration and imports can significantly cushion the consequences of the wealth effect and its draining pool of unemployed workers for awhile, there are limits,

They've been draining water from the ground level for about a month now. They were supposed to be finished by April 14 and there's still working.

They started draining shots. It was a struggle for us.

They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early and by the end it was a struggle. It was a very draining meet in terms of emotion.

It was really draining but fun. We had no trouble going to bed at curfew. We were so tired. We were up everyday at 6 a.m.

It was a tough loss, it was draining at the time. But we still have our minds on a Big Ten championship and Ohio State is up next.

It's a draining feeling. It sucks losing. We want to make the playoffs.

It's been extremely emotionally draining for all of us and especially for Chris. I know people have their doubts, but as far as I'm concerned this is a case of good intentions that were misinterpreted as bad ones.

It's been draining for everybody, and it's a tribute to the commitment of everyone involved with the club that we've come this far.

It's draining when those type of situations occur, even if we don't have anything to do with the investigations. The truth is that I was tired. It's a tough job and with so much pressure that it becomes mentally overwhelming.

It was a major surgery, and Bo is recovering. Doctors removed a tube from his stomach used for draining blood during surgery. Today is a much better day, even better than the day before the hospital admitted him. He was very ill.

It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.

This is just great for the team. Emotionally, it was a very draining game.

Once they sell off what they are calling isolated bits and pieces, they will just dig deeper to sell off more. This administration is draining the Treasury, putting us into hock, so it can say with a straight face that we have no money and there is no other solution but to privatize.

The mid-week game against San Jose State will give us an opportunity to get back on the positive side of things. Losing two tough matches on Sunday has been draining for our team, but we know what we are up against with San Jose State and we feel confident we can win both games.

I'm not dwelling on it. I've moved on to next week. It's nice to have a couple of days off. It was an emotionally, physically draining game.

If you get caught in these with the volume of water draining down, they're so narrow there's no way you can get out. People die in these areas throughout the year - they're dangerous places with the rainfall that we're having.

Intensity is probably the key. When you run the time or intensity up, the body starts to break down, draining energy.

Being a wrestling coach is the hardest job I've ever done. It's harder than teaching, harder than going to Stanford, it's mentally and physically draining and after five years I was worn out. That tells a big tale about how much energy and passion a coach like Bert has. He did it for 25 years.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.

The guide rail needs to be completed in some areas, and there are some roadway drainage issues. We need to verify that the road is draining properly.

All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.