Drying Quotes

Her only weak part, they figured, was a fear of the desert, perhaps a fear of drying in the scorching sun, perhaps a lack of water to drink. — J.M.K. Walkow

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

Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is. — Steve Merrick

His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt. — Paolo Giordano

People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. — Prince Philip

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them? — Chinua Achebe

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. — Lord Byron

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. — Drake

prevent it from drying out you can place a damp piece — Sarah Franklin

So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons. — Bernard Cornwell

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener. — Maira Kalman

Do not wait to know you are drying before you start living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it." Gazing — Dean Koontz

Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam. — James Fenimore Cooper

The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up. — Steve Hallett

Drying, the storm mumbles, / like a freshly washed apron. — Boris Pasternak

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories. — Albert Einstein

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. — Theodore Roosevelt

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying. — Walter Payton

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. — Dorothy Dix

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait
no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?! — Stephen Colbert

Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. — James Richardson

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! — Umberto Eco

So much ice.
She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? — Dianna Hardy

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. — Gabriel Lippmann

One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. — Nick Cave

The 2nd day of drying out is easier. — Sienna McQuillen

The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here. — Liu Cixin

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. — Margaret Atwood

Hell is life drying up. — Joseph Campbell

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens — Louisa May Alcott

Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love. — Thom Yorke