Drill Quotations

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

We're going to go after the Hells Angels, not Ducks Unlimited. This idea that you can somehow create an atmosphere around people who are already respectful of the law and superimpose this blanket (handgun) ban as a solution -- a one size fits all, cookie-cutter approach -- is an absolute abysmal failure. It's publicly misleading and it doesn't drill down into the real problem.

World consumption is growing at a very rapid pace and the time lag to drill new wells to add to capacity leaves us in a precarious position for the next year or so.

We're finding abundant evidence for alteration of rocks in a water environment. What we want to do is figure out which layers were on top of which other layers. To do that it has been helpful to keep climbing for good views of how the layers are tilted to varying degrees. Understanding the sequence of layers is equivalent to having a deep drill core from drilling beneath the plains.

We want landowners to know they have choice when they are approached to lease their mineral rights. There is a difference among the independents and we want the communities where we operate to know that we have their best interests at heart. We always try to do the right thing for landowners and their property, drill safely and efficiently, and clean up the well site area once we've completed.

We ran the two-minute drill great, but we didn't make a good decision on the goal line. Cam is still getting better at quarterback though, and I feel like our team is still improving.

We're looking to fill that gap as our production starts to go down six or seven years from now. And these mines, as everyone is learning, take longer and longer to drill out and to permit and build, so we're actively looking now.

Luke has been an awesome training partner. Having him as a drill partner has helped me learn a lot, and being teammates, we always encourage each other.

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

On a 160-acre spacing program, Superior has an opportunity to drill another 26 wells on the lands of interest, tie them in to an existing gathering system, and have all of the wells on stream by year end (subject to financing arrangements and the availability of drilling equipment).

Most people make plans about a month before they travel. We haven't seen any anecdotal evidence showing people are canceling plans for the weekend, ... Americans have gotten used to terror alerts after having gone through the drill before. I think the difference now is that people do want to get away and they're putting more importance to that than being holed up in the house in fear.

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.

Obviously, some parents drill too much stranger-danger information into the child and it becomes a problem. The child becomes too fearful to do anything out in the world.

On one side was contaminated and on our side (it) is absolutely. Oil, gas, anything -- I watched them walk out the back door and pour it out. I asked SCI to go over there and drill and they said no, they could only drill three holes. I saw the report from the EPA and I called Phil Harris (sic) and said, 'You're not telling the truth!'

If this team doesn't understand that is has to rebound, then someone is going to drill them and they'll figure it out.

I'd love to see somebody drill deep in this part of the country -- 5,000 feet or better. Hopefully some day somebody will do it.

I don't know that they took any gas, but I'm assuming they did. I don't see any other reason to drill a gas tank.

I don't care. If she (Fagan) owns four inches, then you can't pour on the property or drill into the foundation.

But it's not bad. I had that drill with Pat Riley and it was a lot worse.

Basically, you're not supposed to lay your hands on a recruit. You don't really want to have drill instructors grabbing a recruit by the collar, which is what happened here, and you don't want to have them hitting them with elbows.

I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.

(Friday) during our final drill in practice, we took the 1944 championship game ball and during our last press breaker, we got a chance to run up and down the court with it. We join the 1944 team and now people aspire to the 2006 team. This is a testament to all the hard work that resulted in a state championship.

I don't think it's fair to say he took a step back. I don't think he did. We put him in a tough situation in that two-minute drill with about seven minutes left. The game was clearly out of hand then and to put him in that was hard.

For those people that are now walking two hours, and sometimes six hours a day to get their water, the solution is just about 20 meters below their feet. We don't need a miracle cure, we just need to drill a well and make sure there are proper systems in place so people can operate it and maintain it themselves.

He does a great job of getting people to play their best. One of the reasons we are such a good team is that every day in practice is like a game to us. Everything we do is competitive, and everything we do we want to win, no matter what the drill is. He knows you have to coach everyone differently.

There is more stress as a coach because you want to make sure you do everything possible to put your players in a position to have success. I try to think of every little drill and everything I can to say to help them.

to drill in a way that will not despoil the beauty, and we think that can be done.

He's asking a lot of questions, picking everybody's brain, trying to get a feel for everyone, ... He's very serious, very attentive to the details of each drill we did, stressing a high tempo and skating, and I assume that's something that's going to be stressed throughout training camp and the season.

He's got everyone's attention. He gets you wide awake at the beginning of each practice and you've got to be sharp, got to be on your toes. He wants you to listen, he wants you to start each drill properly and make sure you know what you're doing. If you don't, get out of the way. Same thing with our meetings. It's, 'Stop what you're doing and pay attention.' He only has to say it a few times and everyone catches on.

He's a straight-up, forward person. He's a drill sergeant. Out on the field I don't see him yell much, but he's a real serious person. Basically he tells us what to do and we get it done. Before the game he gives the best pep talks. ... He makes you want to go out and compete.

This was a good win that sets us up well for the Southern Equestrian Championships. We still have to finish the drill at Auburn next week though, and we still need to work on winning each event. That's tough to do and that's where our focus will be.

J.T.'s really impressed me. His district tournament was the best he's wrestled all year. His toughness and his ability to win the close matches has really impressed me. He's my drill partner, so that's really been making both of us better all year.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

It is a drill that helps us test our readiness in the event there was an incident.

I think we're doing a lot of good things. We have a lot of offense in and every drill we want to win, but we aren't playing a game today. I'm really happy with the way we're starting to run the football. Our (I-backs) are running hard, we're starting to understand concepts and we're getting better.

Just as we can't drill our way out of oil dependence, we can't grow our way out, either.

Our hurry-up offense and our tempo are outstanding, ... We've just got to use it a little bit more. I'm pretty sure they'll come up with some type of scheme in order to get the two-minute drill or the hurry-up offense going. Once we start doing that and we mature as an offense, man, the sky's the limit.

Our practices are brutal. We set up every drill to be competitive. We have to have a winner or loser or you're going against the clock. We're always putting them in situations like that.

I think I'm a lot more patient. I think I was more a drill sergeant in the early years.

I strongly disagree with that. Clearly, the officials at Fort Huachuca understood Pvt. Lawson was in danger -- otherwise they would not have had him under the drill sergeant's care.

Just keep your eyes open for anyone walking around with a drill and a bucket.

That was a huge shot by Spencer, and it gave us a chance on a night when we really played sub-par. He's a clutch kid, and a confident shooter. It was fun seeing him drill that shot.

Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.

Who has the power now, the drill sergeant or the trainee? If drill sergeants say, 'Run up that hill,' privates are going to say, 'You sexually harassed me,' ... This is a real risk you run if you find drill sergeant Simpson guilty.

Using dataConductorEP, we have seen a tremendous difference in the ease and speed with which we can access data, drill down for answers to our questions and analyze the data. This gives us the ability to implement a company-wide response in dealing with product yield issues. Yield information is more accurate, immediately available and visible throughout our organization.

We've been gone for 19 years. It will take some time before we actually get in and drill exploration wells.

We are now producing a significant amount of oil from the North Slope of Alaska, all (with) environmentally sound technology, ... That environment has not been disrupted ... it's in as good a shape as before we ever put a drill in there.

We'll go over something back and forth, back and forth. And we'll come away from the drill feeling good about the rest of practice.

We practice and drill going to the line tired. But you can't simulate going to the line at Reynolds Coliseum with a tie game and 6 seconds to go. He did something he's going to remember for the rest of his life.

We pounded on the drill steel and received no response. We'll do same.

We set a good foundation early with conditioning and weights, and we're still on it. Every drill I don't tell them it's conditioning, but all our drills are geared toward running up and down that court as fast as you can.

We do a six-minute drill every day at practice and we need to bring that drill into the game.

The exercise covered the principal decision-making and communications issues that would face us in a pandemic. The drill emphasized the need for all of us to continue working together to determine and answer some fundamental questions before we are actually faced with them. These included: At what point would we send students and nonessential staff home? How would we care for remaining faculty and staff, and those students who couldn't evacuate? What decisions could be made by Harvard versus state or local officials? Who would make which crucial decisions and how would those decisions be communicated?

When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a business approach to the whole thing. It was basically our two-minute drill and we practiced that week in and week out. We knew we had a lot of time.

We conducted this drill to make sure that our spill response contractor is familiar with the route to the installation. I also wanted to get the response team familiar with the procedures of getting onto the post.

We have been seeing, in most cases, gas prices on the rise. Companies are having to drill deeper or locate new pockets to extract from. They pass that cost directly to consumers.

This year, the drill will march more in place.

Finding the right place to drill was probably key to our success.

We need to give our children a future less dependent on fossil fuel, ... According to the Energy Department's latest analysis, even if oil companies drill in the wildlife refuge and hit peak production, it will only lower gas prices by a penny per gallon.

You box out and play good defense on Marco every time, every play, so you don't have to do that drill anymore.

You can't drill holes over the whole reservoir.

You can't drill a well when you don't know what the economics will be.

We have a drill in practice where we put five minutes on the clock and are down by 15 points. During a timeout I told the girls we've done this before in practice, we can do it now.

To assume we're going to have our head over a barrel and be forced to accept some sort of compromise bill is not the position we find ourselves in right now. The moratorium remains in effect. There is nothing new; the only thing new is this tendency to provide an alternate plan to one that wants to drill closer to Florida's shores.

What Pop doesn't have is the athletes or depth, to a certain extent. It'll be good for this team. I tell you, it's disruptive. I think this could help George. If it doesn't, you don't lose anything. The way George plays, he's reinforced his help principles through a great drill if he never uses this (in a game).

We just drill that every single day. Takedowns are what win matches.

We just drill it over and over until we feel like we have it right. We also put together a full two-hour concert, so we've only had a few weeks to polish for the competition. Other groups get to work on the same four songs for 10 months, so I think that's to Vocal Point's credit.

We have to drill from the beginning how important it is to work hard because the season comes up really fast. That's one of the biggest regrets I've faced in basketball and softball, not coming out strong in the beginning. You take it too lightly, and you look back on it and wish you would have worked harder.

You have to put a lot of drill work in. A lot of your focus is put on things you don't see every day, like counters coming back off of it, play-option passes coming off it. They're always (blocking) at your legs. It's totally different than preparing for the typical team you play.

We went through 46 pages of drill in less than four days. There is a lot to do. We want to have the show complete by then. We can work out the kinks as you move along. You can also keep enhancing the show and making things better.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

Every drill is about competing. Coach is trying to teach those who don't know how to compete to compete. He lets us know that it is not all right to lose at anything, in any drill around here.

Every drill is about competing, ... Coach is trying to teach those who don't know how to compete to compete. He lets us know that it is not all right to lose at anything, in any drill around here.

At the conclusion of the drill, all aspects of the drill were reviewed and a plan was developed to correct any deficiencies that we might have at this time. The chapter will be looking at recruiting additional disaster volunteers and acquiring some material resources.

Do we have a problem in energy? You bet we do, but we can't drill our way out of our problem,

A simple 2-on-2 drill we do all the time. Bad read. Unacceptable, in March.

Drill work, I mean he acts as if it's last play of a big game and he's got to do it right. I mean even when we're warming up, at the beginning (of practice), that he's working on his accuracy. He's got an extraordinary ability to focus in and key in and get better.

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

Each exercise has gotten larger. So it's fair to say this drill will include more participants and likely more cost, as well.

Everything we're doing now, ever since the end of the season, is geared on getting us better prepared to finish games. The close losses aren't something we've dwelled on, but it's definitely in our subconscious. We know how close we've been, and we know we've got to be that much stronger near the end of every drill and every practice if we're going to clear that last hurdle.

There's just not that many corners of the world left to go drill holes in anymore,

I've never seen that drill before. Maybe if that didn't happen, who knows if we would have had it or not. As long as it's not the hard baseballs they're firing at you.

Practice is fun, but it's more exciting to play. You can drill and practice until you turn blue, but it's not going to be the same as laying it on the line when there's something there that matters.

A fire drill does not demand a fire

The oil is in the ground waiting to be exploited. But how do we get access to what is left? At the end of the day the drill bit has to hit the ground.