Dry Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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 destroys all sensations.

  Camille Pissarro

  Color, Drawing, Shapes

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• Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Rivers, Luck

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• 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 dinner to clear the table. My sister and I would wash and dry the dishes each night at Father's request. If we were not there, Father and Mother would clean the kitchen together.

  Robert D. Hales

  Sister, Mother, Respect

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• 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. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

  John W. Gardner

  Dream, Spring, Civilization

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• 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

  Friendship, Eye, Tears

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• 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 to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• 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, have lost all before they arrive at my age-& remain like Swift's Stulbruggs-cut and dry for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures:-whereas, I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge.

  Edward Lear

  Knowledge, Science, Cutting

  L. Candace Pezzera, Edward Lear, Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art (1982). “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear: watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island collections”

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• Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

  William Osler

  Heart, Science, Want

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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• 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 on dry goods boxes at every corner [viz. the cubic atom], ready to shake hands with, or hold on to similar loafer electrons in other atoms.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Hands, America

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• 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 feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dream, Heart, Smell

  Zora Neale Hurston (1990). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Harper Perennial

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• 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 coastline or a tree.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Lying, Science

  "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.

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• 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 the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, Law, Roots

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Dust

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

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• Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

  George Burns

  Drinking, Good Woman, Cuban Cigars

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