
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