Dry Quotes

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

I would fain die a dry death.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

My routine actually stays pretty simple and consistent. Every morning I use the X-Out Wash-In Treatment with warm water in the shower. I towel dry my face, apply a moisturizer-sunscreen, and go!

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.