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Quotes About Dry

I would fain die a dry death.
~ William Shakespeare
The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
~ William Wordsworth
A fire needs three things: a dry bed, fuel, and room to breathe.
~ Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
~ Adeline Knapp
I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry? Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that? So many daughters have come home wet lately.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled.
~ Jeff Strand
He saw me notice and took my hands in his. "It's too quiet for me, Cousin, and too dry. You understand, don't you?" I don't, but I was charmed, as he knew I would be, in spite of my being against charm in principle.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
If I wash my hair in the morning, then I usually air-dry it. In warmer weather, if I walk my dog, by the time I am back in, it is usually nice and dry!
~ Jillian Hervey
I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'
~ Blake Griffin
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
~ Richard Engel
Here in California, it is so dry. When I lived in New York, my skin definitely wasn't so dry. I always try to drink lots of water, which helps keep my lips from cracking, but I really need a good lip balm, too.
~ Skai Jackson
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
~ Albert Finney
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.
~ Leon Russell
The air buzzed with the nervous palsy it gets when the wind freight-trains in from the deserts, dry as bone, and cooking the hillsides into tar-filled kindling that can snap into flames hot enough to melt an auto body.
~ Robert Crais
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, he said. I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Southern California spring-time, when things bloomed, occurred from November through February, corresponding to the rainy season. Summer's equivalent would be March through May; and the dry brown autumn was June through October. Leaving no good equivalent for winter proper.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had
~ L. Frank Baum
He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Het hoofd van mijn beveiliging deed met getrokken pistool de deur open. 'Ook hallo,' zei Thea droog.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I felt... numb wasn't the right word. My mouth was too dry. My heart was beating too fast. I hurt, but it felt like I was hurting from a distance.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Bad child, wicked child, push you in the bin, Out with the rubbish on your chin, chin, chin, Up pops and ishkin, then it pulls you in, Makes you cry and sucks you dry and throws away your skin.
~ Emily Rodda
Jeff Beachum, Sergeant of Snark, Wielder of Witticism, Dominator of the Double Entendre, completely ran out of things to say.
~ Amy Lane
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
~ Andrew Bird
I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.
~ Stephen Graham Jones