Dry As Quotes

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

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet. — Anais Nin

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately

He lives alone, unexcited, disinterested, world-weary and ungiving, yet it is this dry-as-dust approach that makes him fascinating. — Morrissey

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

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. — George Will

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