Dry Quotes - Page 29

• Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Doubt

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• Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

  Amy Poehler

  Rain, Sadness, Forever

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• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.

  Bruce Miller

  Mean, Sunday, Fire

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• The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

  John James Audubon

  Giving, Tree, Hints

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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• A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Powerful, Writing, Style

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.1401, e-artnow

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• Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...
  As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

  Sark

  Girl, Nice, Safety

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• No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.

  Sark

  Nice, Suffering, Rewards

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• Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Spring, Years, Normal

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

  Ray Charles

  Work, Each Day, Hens

  Song: Busted

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• Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophical, Light

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• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Thinking, Dry Bones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Hair, Style, Easier

  "Georgia Jagger's Beauty Secrets". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. March 28, 2013.

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• Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

  Laird Hamilton

  Exercise, Land, Challenges

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opportunity, Fire, Flames

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The Guide sang:
  The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought,
  And fools crying,
  Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun!
  The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run
  Faster for ever,
  The old age is done,
  We have new lights and see without the sun.
  (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea,
  Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Art, Light

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, pp. 186-187, 1933.

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• Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Practice, Things In Life

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Order, Voice

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Paradise

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Ifs And, Sorrow

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• Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Champagne

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