Dry Quotes

1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical. — Tim Heidecker
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now… — Anton Chekhov
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had… — Alexander MacLaren
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from… — Robert D. Hales
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.… — John W. Gardner
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. — Cecelia Ahern
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca the Younger
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… — John Ruskin
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
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

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