I could stare at the books ... until my were as dry & fuzzy as the text, but I still didn't know what to do with my feelings.
— Elizabeth Hein
Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
— Catharine Beecher
The moment I see her, there's a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert.
— Haruki Murakami
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.
— Joseph Bologna
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
— Richard Whately
What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan)As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn't end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
— Ros Asquith
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
— Robert A. Burton
I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as it's great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too.
— Ashley Madekwe
As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.
— Adrian G. Hilder
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.
— Vivian Gornick
Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I will always choose to be an imbecile. I couldn't cut it as an old fashion, and dry gal.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Well," Loraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have clothes on.
— Laini Taylor
I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.
— Leon Bridges
Happy as a butterfly on a sunny day, I walked out of the pantry holding dry pasta and tomato sauce.
— Scarlett Dawn
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
— Chris Womersley
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. — C.S. Lewis
It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You are as dry as vermouth. — Lauren Groff
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — D.H. Lawrence
Here, said the nuggety bald fixture. You look dry as a camel's cookie. — Tim Winton
The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. — William Wordsworth
Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women. — Robert Jordan
And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all. — Koushun Takami
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry. — Laozi
He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too? — Kelly Creagh
If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon. — William McDonough
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor. — Rich Sommer
As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry. — Aaron Rodgers
It had been so long since he'd been tempted that he felt as dry as the Northern California landscape, one spark away from complete devastation. — Annabeth Albert
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns. — Victor Hugo
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,Die though, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa — Robert W. Chambers
Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style. — Georgia May Jagger
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier
Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell. — Martin Luther King Jr.
They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief — Isabel Allende
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. — Beverly Johnson
You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception. — Dan Millman
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry. — Sharon Gannon
Grace had called Ellen a dry little prune who'd be lucky to give it away for free disguised as a hat, let alone sell it or marry it off. — Lyndsay Faye
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages ... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony. — Jean-Dominique Bauby
I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"! — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. — Ben Goldacre
I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean! — Jessica Szohr
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. — Nick Cave
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. — Robert A. Heinlein
Never leave anything out to dry as the sun comes up for the new year. — Markus Zusak
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat. — Ivan Pavlov
as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land. — Jerome K. Jerome
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer. — George Arnold
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. — Henry David Thoreau
As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae. — Suetonius
We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain. — Madeleine L'Engle
Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give. — Ma Jaya
He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices. — Charles Baxter
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. — Jack Brickhouse
Concern seemed to bleed his heart dry as they ran along. — James Dashner
Martinis as cold as a banker's handclasp and dry as a deacon's cupboard. — Matthew Blood
For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may. — Susanna Clarke
Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. — Mahatma Gandhi
