Dry Quotes

1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors

I really like just super dry comedy. — Zach Braff
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,… — Alfred de Musset
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — D. H. Lawrence
He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows… — The Miz
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and… — D. H. Lawrence
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for… — Victor Hugo
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or… — William Shakespeare
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your… — Ian Shoales
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will… — Alexander Smith
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the… — Jack Kerouac
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them. — Seneca the Younger
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but… — Orison Swett Marden
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the… — Garrison Keillor
I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired… — Damon Runyon
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the… — Mary McCarthy
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? — Christopher Fry
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it. — Ramakrishna
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and… — James Agee
When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there… — Maureen Howard
I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's… — Jack Dee
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name,… — Norman MacCaig
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
What I do is I try to be as healthy as possible all around. I use a Proactiv daily wash because my face is dry… — Sasha Pieterse

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