Dry Quotes - Page 7

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

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

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

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

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

I would fain die a dry death.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

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

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.