Dry Quotes - Page 37

• The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Light

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Rags, Paper

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• I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

  Henry Miller

  Effort, Quiet, Found

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

  Jack London

  London, Meteors, Sparks

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
  In this bright future you can't forget your past
  So dry your tears I say.

  Bob Marley

  Good Friend, Past, Tears

  "Song: 'No Woman, No Cry'". 1974.

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• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Air, Depth, Corn

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• Dry your tears, have no fears.

  Bob Marley

  Tears, No Fear, Have No Fear

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• This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Spring

  William Law (1823). “The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity”, p.44

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• So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

  Lee Goldberg

  Eye, Animal, Rivers

  Lee Goldberg (2009). “Mr. Monk in Trouble”, p.70, Penguin

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• If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Ice, Swim

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• Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Thinking, Dry Up, Organization

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• We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

  Edward Young

  Smile, Mind, Fool

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.105

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• So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

  Lord Byron

  Regret, Eye, Kissing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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• For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

  John Locke

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Swimming

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• I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.

  Bear Grylls

  Thinking, Fire, Clothes

  "Grilling Bear Grylls About 'Get Out Alive'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

  John Darnielle

  Miracle, Literature, Mystical

  "The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle learns to trust others". Interview with Paul Caine, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't really make it up. You just were or you weren't. You either fit in that world or you fit in the other. Things were very cut and dry. Things were simple. There wasn't a whole lot of excess or flash to be flashy; it was real flash, and real excitement.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Cutting, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

  Piper Perabo

  Morning, New York, Coffee

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Well I remember the first thing that from coming from New York that just stunned me and I couldn't understand was that you valet park for everything. Even - you valet park to go to the dry cleaner. And that, you know, that just blew my mind. I was like, okay, you have to pay $5 to a guy to just drop off your dry cleaning. And so that, to me, was nuts - the fact you're always arriving.

  Debra Messing

  New York, Nuts, Dry Cleaning

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

  Jeff Lowe

  Wall, Rocks, Ice

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