Dry Quotes

1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors

Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea,… — Sharon Shinn
You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. — Sarah Dessen
Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no… — Cassandra Clare
Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry. — Sylvia Plath
Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put… — Ilona Andrews
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room,… — Christopher Moore
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made… — Kurt Vonnegut
The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees,… — Jim Butcher
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip… — Albert Camus
Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't… — John Steinbeck
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
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure… — Ayn Rand
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how. — Juliet Marillier
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home) — Henri Nouwen
What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn’t end soon, I might get out… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know everything about everything and before I dry off completely, which is something I truly hate, you better go outside, collect Trates, and have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from… — Suzanne Collins
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she… — Rudyard Kipling
My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t want so much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the… — Virginia Woolf

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