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You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.
— Dorothy Draper
The river is within us, the sea is all about us;
— T. S. Eliot
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
— Richard Whately
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
— Albert Camus
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
— Diane Johnson
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates
— Michel Foucault
Where is home?Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. — Laura Wiess
Life bring tears, smiles, and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever.
— Malik Faisal
What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.
— Aldo Leopold
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
The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.
— Munia Khan
The imagination can never run dry if you fill it with books!
— Jessica Munzlinger
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
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
— Frances Osborne
Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
— Diane Setterfield
Well," Loraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have clothes on.
— Laini Taylor
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
— Will Rogers
New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.
— David Hallberg
You are to me,what wind is to dry leaves.
The reason for me to fall,
the reason for me to fly. — Seekerohan
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
— Lewis Grizzard
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
— Ramakrishna
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
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
— George Orwell
Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
— Wallace Stegner
A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? Luke — New Testament
The very odd thing about sagas [ ... ] is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
— David Gemmell
But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.
— Gregory Maguire
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
— Emma Donoghue
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
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
Love can be a small oasis in the middle of a dry, heartless world.
— Jose N. Harris
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
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Occasionally, someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs.
— Haruki Murakami
The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
— Kurt Braunohler
But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.
— Orson Scott Card
I grew up on black sand greens. The best tees were old, dry cowpies, believe it or not.
— Billy Casper
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.
— Thomas Wolfe
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
— Louis Bourdaloue
What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
— Samuel Rutherford
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
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
Hedge was enthralled by her symmetry, yet the word was too cool and dry. She was beautiful.
— Sean DeLauder
Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.
— Demetri Martin
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
— Vusi Mahlasela
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
— Olivia Wilde
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
— Douglas Coupland
A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.
— Jenny Offill
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
— Garth Brooks
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
— George Ayittey
I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good ... tumble dry.-Eve Rosser
— Rachel Caine
If you have to fall, fall like a dry leaf, follow the wind, drop on the river; you will meet the ocean and your life will never ne the same.
— Marcus L. Lukusa
A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
— Willie Nelson
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
— Tom Hopper
Mia is the wind - the hot, dry western wind. And I am gravity.
— Sophie Hardcastle
You defy questions;You defy other godhood.
I walk dry on your kingdom's border,
Exiled to no good. — Sylvia Plath
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
— Chris Cooper
Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
— Don McLean
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
The worst coffee I had ever tasted, but it was hot. I drank three cups and sat there an hour, until I was completely dry.
— Charles Bukowski
Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?
— Gerry Alanguilan
And fetch some straw.We'll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn't sleep soft tonight."
"Straw. I love luxury. — Joanna Bourne
The sea is a dangerous place for a woman," said Mr. Chadwick, nodding. "So is dry land," said Chloe.
— James K. Morrow
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
— Benjamin Walker
He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry — Wilfred Owen
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.
— Edward Bouverie Pusey
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
— Bruce Lee
It. I don't mean to poke the bear, but I've got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along?
— Jamie McGuire
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You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
— Kenneth Oppel
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
— Jackson Browne
When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."
— Hamilton Leithauser
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
— Virginia Woolf
