Dry Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, Heaven

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• There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

  Eric Burdon

  Running, Rivers, Feels

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• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising way forward. This knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.

  Pratibha Patil

  Rain, Way Forward, Land

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.

  Alexa Chung

  Hair, Ifs

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• I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Guy, Sense Of Humor

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• Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

  Laz Alonso

  Eye, Squares, Miracle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Literature, My Favorite

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

  Georges Cuvier

  Land, Body, Layers

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

  Natalie Dormer

  Believe, Home, Unemployment

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• I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Running, Blow, Hair

  "20 Questions With Brooks & Dunn". cmt.com interview, www.cmt.com. October 19, 2004.

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• We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

  Billy Joel

  Alcohol, Drug, Soul

  Billy Joel (1988). “Billy Joel Complete - Volume 2 (Songbook)”, p.142, Hal Leonard Corporation

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  It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

  George Harrison

  Hurt, Eye, Evil

  Song: See Yourself

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• Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

  Don Van Vliet

  Fall, Stones, Bones

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• Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

  Ani DiFranco

  Goodbye, Air, Sky

  Song: Fire Door

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• First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

  Gail Simmons

  Thinking, People, Taste

  "‘Top Chef’ Judge Gail Simmons Reveals Her Favorite Ketchup". Interview with Michelle Madden, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

  John Denver

  Believe, Blood, Politics

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• ... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

  Karen Tayleur

  Heart, Car, Finals

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• I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Vacation, Wind, Trying

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• Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Thinking, Two, People

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