Dry Quotes

1049 quotes by 802 authors

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. — William Osler
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out… — Abraham Lincoln
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman. — George Burns
This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics… — Ronald Reagan
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?… — Charles Lamb
From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. — Louis Bourdaloue
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry… — Groucho Marx
I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up,… — Youngjae
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. — Soren Kierkegaard
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf… — Thomas Merton
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry -… — Unknown Author
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. — Unknown Author
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. — William Shakespeare
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a… — Rudy Rucker
Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry… — Dennis Miller

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