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• People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.

  Linda Evangelista

  Coffee, Foam, Half

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Coffee, Smell, Bags

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy, half lowfat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole.

  George Carlin

  Sweet, Coffee, Light

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• You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

  Barry Lopez

  Education, Time, Learning

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Desert Notes and River Notes”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Fall, Tree, Listening

  Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”

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• I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

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• The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Support

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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• I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned

  Drake

  Humble, Pimp, Suits

  Song: Paris Morton Music

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• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

  Loretta Lynn

  Life, Night, Lasts

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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• O rose, who dares to name thee?
  No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
  But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,
  Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Flower, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.409

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• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

  Robertson Davies

  Autumn, Editors, Fudge

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• Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Chocolate, Style

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• As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

  Isaac Newton

  Writing, Beer, Illustration

  Sir Isaac Newton (1959). “Correspondence: 1676-1687”

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• To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Running, Real, Self

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1974). “The Original Feminist Attack on the Bible: (The Woman's Bible).”, Arno Press

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• Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Men, Eagles

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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• I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

  Krysten Ritter

  Sarcastic, Zest, Huge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can be very dry and sarcastic.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Sarcastic, I Can

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• I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

  Olivia Munn

  Sarcastic, Different

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• 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

  Mom, Sarcastic, Dad

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Neither love me for
  Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
  A creature might forget to weep, who bore
  Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
  But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Long, Comfort

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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• 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 it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Summer, Lying, Land

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles of John, Jude, and the Book of Revelation”

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