Dry Quotes - Page 4

• The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fishing, Capes, Complaining

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.206

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• You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sweat, People, Giving

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• Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Song, Writing

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• Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Dry Up, Musical

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

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• The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

  Sherman Alexie

  Who We Are, Life Is, Worst

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• In the Greek way of dealing with alchemy, which was earth, air, fire and water, these were the objective qualities. Within the objective qualities - things of earth, air, fire and water - are our subjective experiences of hot, cold, dry, and moist.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Fire, Air, Water

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our intuitions, our thoughts, our sensing and our feeling.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Air, Hot And Cold, Space

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Party, Men, Dry Bones

  1896 A Writer's Notebook (published1949).

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• If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Youth, Habit, Ridicule

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• For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Pet, Film, Mink

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• I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

  Jack Paar

  Cities, Kansas City, Flying

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• I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Dresses

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• O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

  Randy Alcorn

  Land, Long, Water

  FaceBook post by Randy Alcorn from Dec 23, 2015

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• When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honor, Bread, Poor

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• I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sick, Dying

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• Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

  Paul Auster

  Pieces, Literature, Information

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Ideas, Might, Force

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there.

  DJ Khaled

  Watches, World, Cold

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• I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

  Charli XCX

  Thinking, Romance, Would Be

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.

  Rhys Darby

  Silly, Adventure, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

  Eric Lange

  Giving, Creative, Trying

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• The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.

  Greg James

  Transition, Radio, Interviews

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.

  John D'Agata

  Philosophical, Writing, Fate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Hair, Style, Attention

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

  Michael Cera

  Baseball, Player, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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