Dry Quotes
1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors
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Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t…
— Max Lucado
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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with…
— Clint Eastwood
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A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect…
— Anna Godbersen
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Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can…
— John Steinbeck
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Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time…
— Ruta Sepetys
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He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he…
— John Owen
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Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the…
— A. E. Housman
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
— Haruki Murakami
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Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered…
— James Jones
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Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs…
— Jim Butcher
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They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
— Sara Gruen
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As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright…
— Sara Teasdale
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How long can you keep me invisible?" "As long as were in physical contact." My throat felt dry. "Holding hands?" That's how we'd done it…
— Rachel Vincent
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only…
— Antonio Machado
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The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared…
— William Faulkner
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left…
— William Shakespeare
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A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
— Rita Rudner
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And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I…
— Sarah Dessen
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The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively…
— Matt Taibbi
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I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims…
— Karen Russell
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
— Virginia Woolf
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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were…
— Salman Rushdie
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