Dry Quotes - Page 28

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  Zach Braff

  Comedy

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Jesus, Religion, Bread

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows how I like my stuff folded and put away into drawers.

  The Miz

  Kings, Wwe, Dry Cleaning

  "Banking on The Miz". Skysports Interview, www.skysports.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Comfort, Population

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

  Victor Hugo

  Wish, Extravagance, Useless

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• 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, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry, Tree, Teeth

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]”, p.147, Demitra Papadinis

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• Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.

  Ian Shoales

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Rocks

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Past, Names

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  Damon Runyon

  Baby, Clothes, Innovation

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• The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

  Mary McCarthy

  Cities, Venice, Doubt

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

  Christopher Fry

  Serenity, Determined, Morality

  Christopher Fry (2014). “The Firstborn”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

  Ramakrishna

  Nuts, Shells, Green

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• One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

  James Agee

  Dry Up, Mind, States

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• When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.

  Maureen Howard

  Mother, Home, Winning

  Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

  Jack Dee

  Blow, Men, Hair

  Jack Dee (2009). “Thanks For Nothing”, p.96, Random House

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• Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Heart, Heaven, Steps

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• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

  Phillip Lopate

  Running, Party, Night

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

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• So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Writing, Two

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• Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

  Tim Cahill

  California, Europe, Wind

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