Dry Quote by Douglas Adams Download Open image “He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.” — Douglas Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dry Sponges Sun
That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did… — Bible Copy Share Image
It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I was a sponge filled to capacity with the putrid gray water of all of those who had hurt me. I wondered if, like… — Elle Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the… — T.H. White Copy Share
He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
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… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
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,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image