These drag quotes will inspire you. Drag, something used to drag with or pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging drag quotes, drag sayings, and drag proverbs.
Best Drag Quotes
- “Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!” ~ RuPaul
- “Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.” ~ Mark Twain
- “I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.” ~ Joel Osteen
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“I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.” ~ Bebe Neuwirth
- “Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. ‘Nothing is more real than nothing.’ They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents’ lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.” ~ Angela Carter
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“It’s really a drag to do the same project over and over again.” ~ David Johansen
- “Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.” ~ RuPaul
- “I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.” ~ Tabatha Coffey
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“I feel like I’m a drag queen.” ~ Maya Rudolph
- “Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, ‘Do I really need this?’ And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It’s not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.” ~ Sylvester Stallone
- “Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
- “When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.” ~ RuPaul
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“I drag my myth around with me.” ~ Orson Welles
- “What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.” ~ Alan Watts
- “The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I’ve been led astray like that myself at times.” ~ Greg Egan
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“As far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.” ~ Patti Smith
- “There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.” ~ Judith Butler
- “I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.” ~ Benjamin F. Wade
- “When you’ve toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you’re always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag” ~ Ritchie Blackmore
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“I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.” ~ Gregory Harrison
- “To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.” ~ Ronald Blythe
- “Naturally, the common people don’t want war … but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” ~ Hermann Goring
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“The natural movement of one’s soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.” ~ Vinoba Bhave
- “Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.” ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
- “I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.” ~ Jim Carrey
- “War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.” ~ Helen and Scott Nearing
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“How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- “I love drag queens… they perform me better than I ever could myself.” ~ Taylor Dane
- “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.” ~ Steve Harvey
- “My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.” ~ Alicia Keys
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“Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.” ~ Brian Eno
- “Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can’t let them continue to slam the door in our faces.” ~ Craig L. Thomas
- “Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.” ~ Liv Tyler , Drag quotes queen
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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.” ~ Quentin Crisp
- “I don’t think it’s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.” ~ Barber Conable
- “If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.” ~ Bernhard Langer
- “Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.” ~ Eliza Farnham
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“Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there’s no telling what you will find.” ~ James Carville
- “I do resent that when you’re in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you’re put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they’re older. So it’s a drag that we’re not allowed to age” ~ Rosanna Arquette
- “Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.” ~ RuPaul
- “There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there’s also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world” ~ Karolina Kurkova
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“I wasn’t playing a drag queen – I was playing an extraordinary performer.” ~ John Lone
- “At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers’ apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.” ~ Richard Dooling
- “I’m tired of being around men all the time. I’m going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I’ll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.” ~ Brian Molko
- “Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.” ~ Harry Shearer
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“To me, it’s a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.” ~ Ellen Burstyn
- “I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.” ~ Booker T. Washington
- “Being in drag for three months – I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.” ~ Michael Rosenbaum
- “Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.” ~ Horace
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“If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” ~ RuPaul
- “When my kids are in college, maybe I’ll drag my fishnets and high heels out.” ~ Sheena Easton
- “Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.” ~ Barry Gibb
- “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.” ~ Barbara Kruger
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“If CART continues on, it’s just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.” ~ Michael Andretti
- “In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.” ~ Sharon Gless
- “Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn’t work.” ~ Michael Nesmith
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“I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.” ~ Laura Kightlinger
- “Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.” ~ Van Morrison
- “I’ve always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you’ve got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn’t supposed to be easy.” ~ Henry Rollins
