Dry Quotes - Page 2

• He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  White, Martini

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Cocktail Time”, p.19, Random House

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• In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

  Piper Perabo

  Clouds, Texas, Sky

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• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

  Bret Harte

  Patience, Eye, Tears

  Bret Harte (1872). “Prose and Poetry”, p.305

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• I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

  Rudy Rucker

  Thinking, Dead Ends, Nanotechnology

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

  Frank Luntz

  Stories, Compelling, Recitation

  "Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy". Republican Party Memo, www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2003.

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• 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

  Thinking, Robins, Kind

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• Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Soil, Common, Wells

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• I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up

  Barry Gibb

  Song, Thinking, Dry Up

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• Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

  Nicholson Baker

  Restaurants, Pens

  Nicholson Baker (1990). “The Mezzanine: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Running, Spring, Water

  Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis (1996). “Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin”, p.34, SIU Press

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• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  Parris Glendening

  Rivers, Water, Tables

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• Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

  Satish Kumar

  Water, Three, Liquid

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. 1987.

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• Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

  Bliss Carman

  Life, Running, Men

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• This shirt is "dry-clean only"... Which means it's dirty.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "Strategic Grill Locations". Comedy album by Mitch Hedberg, 1999.

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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Pain, Fall, Soul

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  Quincy Jones

  Home, Writing, Singers

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 1995.

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• Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Disappointment, Eye, Heart

  Thomas Merton (1990). “The School of Charity: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Renewal & Spiritual Direction”, p.292, Macmillan

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• I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

  Katie Price

  Laughter, Hate, Real

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• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Islam, Development, Swamps

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• I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Ambition, Sleep

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

  Richard Russo

  Running, Worry, Wells

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Tears, Cry

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• All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Dust, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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