Top 166 Drained Quotes & Sayings

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.

The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

As austerity has drained the blood from public services, preventive services have been the first to suffer.

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

Apples hate strong wind and damp, cold soil so try and place them on well-drained, rich soil in a sheltered position.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

Something can be said for quitting for a little while. You can get completely drained as a performer and creator. You have to fill back up.

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

I'm mentally drained even when I'm just sitting on the bench and not playing.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

I've never felt so physically and emotionally and mentally drained than I have on our shoots.

You know an action is the correct one for you because you don't think, "This is costing me my power." I can be tired after a day's work at the right job, but I'm not psychically drained to where I feel like I'm losing life.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

I feel drained out after working on my shows, but working on 'Krishna' was fun.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

I could actually do a lot more if I didn't have things go wrong. So, what I am trying to do now is stay light on the parasites. If you are not drained by anyone you can do way more.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

But the whole reason I fish is that you never know for sure what is down there. Unless you drained Loch Ness you will never be certain what's living in it.

Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn't have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.

Goalkeeping is so mental you've got to be focused all the time. You come off the pitch drained in a different way to an outfield player. You'd probably be more mentally drained.

You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.