Dry Quotes - Page 26

• The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Trying, Locks, Frozen

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

  Adam Rogers

  Thinking, Cities, Hot

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• Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
  Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
  That may discover such integrity.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Writing, Feelings

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.90

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• We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Practice, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, August, Blood

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Communication

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Space, People, Grace

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• The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse all in a heap. Trembled the wee Elf, frightened and yet Fearing to fly away lest he get wet. To the next shelter-maybe a mile! Sudden the wee Elf smiled a wee smile. Tugged till the toadstool toppled in two. Holding it over him, gaily he flew. Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. Soon woke the Dormouse-"Good gracious me!" "Where is my toadstool?" loud he lamented. -And that's how umbrellas first were invented.

  Oliver Herford

  Rain, Home, Two

  Oliver Herford (1901). “Artful Antics”

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Nature, Rags, Paper

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• The other dry shampoo I was using was wet feeling but I love Prive's smell and how light and airy my hair feels afterwards!

  Sarah

  Light, Hair, Smell

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• When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Facts, Sometimes, God Is In Control

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Hope”, Harper San Francisco

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• You don't miss your water
  'Till your well runs dry.

  William Bell

  Running, Water, Missing

  "You Don't Miss Your Water". Song by William Bell, 1965.

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• Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

  Ma Jaya

  Running, Spiritual, Heart

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• Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

  David Bianculli

  Fun, Ink, World

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• One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Irritation, Fake

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

  Eminem

  Song, Eye, Cry

  Song: My Dad's Gone Crazy, Album: The Eminem Show

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• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Blow, Evening, Ready

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• Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are not bone-dry. Moms are the middle of the flow chart; the arrows of exertion flow constantly out from us, but when no arrows of strength, grace, and peace are flowing in, the whole mechanism is in danger. Goodness in equals goodness out.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Mom, Spiritual, Children

  Jen Hatmaker (2010). “Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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• Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

  Marcel Proust

  Running, Past, Tears

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• As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

  R. K. Laxman

  Children, Eye, Opposites

  R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr

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• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

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• When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positive, Running, Spiritual

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self”, p.247, Random House

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• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Eggs, Ducks, Water

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• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Moon, White, Friendly

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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