Dry Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

I would fain die a dry death.

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

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

I love having my hair blown dry by a stylist and I also truly enjoy being with my friends and family.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.