Dry Quotes - Page 34

• You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Sneakers

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• I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

  Topher Grace

  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 02, 2011.

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• I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

  Michael Buble

  Dark, Way, Tongue

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

  Russell Brand

  Democracy, Littles, Blunt

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• Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Science, Feelings

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• A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gilded

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Humor, People

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

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• Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
  Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rain, Boys, Men

  "Gerontion" l. 1 (1920)

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• An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Roots, Teeth, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Citizens

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Wind, Mind

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

  Angela Carter

  Creativity, Optimism, Rabbits

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous--but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.

  Fanny Burney

  Reading, Book, Eye

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• At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dog, Brother, Rain

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• What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

  Elton John

  Artist, Blood, Careers

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

  Robert Pattinson

  Dry Up, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.

  Bill Walton

  Team, Hot, World

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on
  You.

  John of the Cross

  Spirit, Forget

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.88, ICS Publications

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• I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about.

  Jessica Biel

  Might, Cleaners, Knows

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• Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  Jack Brickhouse

  Sports, Integrity, Firsts

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• When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

  Dan Quisenberry

  League, Stronger, Amphetamines

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