Quotes About Dry

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.

You,' I said. My throat was dry; I could barely speak. 'Not the greatest welcome I've ever had,' the voice said, 'but accurate. Yes, I can't deny it. Me.'

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

Where I come from people are very deadpan with a dry humour that I suppose rubbed off on me.

I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I'm feeling nervous.

Reporters are like vampires, Curry likes to say. They can't come into your home without your invitation, but once they're there, you won't get them out till they've sucked you dry.

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.

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.

But Fr Gaunt was so clipped and trim he had no antennae at all for grief. He was like a singer who knows the words and can sing, but cannot sing the song as conceived in the heart of the composer. Mostly he was dry. He spoke over young and old with the same dry music. But

Winter brings cold dry harsh weather and trees are without leaves.

I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.

nightly rolling of Mother Ocean (It's all right, it's all right; everything is calm; we are just eating every thing that moves in here, dry people)...p.57

Those are known as "oil-cured," "brine-cured," "water-cured," or "dry-salted" olives.

Il mio lutto per lui è una pozza d'acqua marina prosciugata. Tra gli scogli resta il sale asciutto, dei singhiozzi a secco.

Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine.

They were all very moist." "really? You couldn't find a different word?" "they were all somewhere between soggy and dry.

burrowed into my sleeping hut for a long, dry nap.

He spoke in one of the American accents; Lydia couldn't distinguish among them. To her they all sounded dry and tinny. Almost quack-like.

It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry he would say. I've been wet more than half my life and never been a whit the worse for it.

Everybody knows what a dry text is - one that has left out feeling, one that bores you stiff because if doesn't speak to anything human, hides the obvious under obfuscation, or is simply incomprehensible.