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Quotes About Drying

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
~ Phyllis McGinley
The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of drying them in the sun. Then it takes away a part of that crop and stores it in warehouses around California.
~ David Fahrenthold
People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.
~ Grace Slick
I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.
~ Boris Vallejo
You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.
~ Zach Galifianakis
both nutritionally and ecologically. The resolution of this crisis is so fundamental to our personal health and the health of our planet that we must look more closely at water than we look at any other nutrient. What is happening to our water is simple: it is Drying Up, Getting Diverted, and Becoming Toxic.
~ Elson M. Haas
The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
~ Andre Breton
I wonder how long it will take to dry.
~ Arleta Richardson
Frying is essentially a drying process. Batters and breadings are formulated to dry out in a particularly graceful way.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
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
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
~ Maira Kalman
Everywhere beneath the branches of the four oak trees the moonlight showed him pools of drying blood and tufts of torn-out fur.
~ Erin Hunter
I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
~ Geoffrey Zakarian
Drying, the storm mumbles, / like a freshly washed apron.
~ Boris Pasternak
embryo from drying out. Sixty million
~ Steve Alten
You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
~ Howard Finster
After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I'll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.
~ Tori Kelly
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.
~ Thomas Harris
Across every inhabited continent, just as on the Great Plains, mass land clearing and wheat farming had led to significant drying, exhausting the soils and throwing fragile ecosystems out of whack. Combined with the market forces controlling distribution, human-caused climate change joined with natural weather patterns to wreak absolute havoc.
~ Caroline Fraser
He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.
~ Jack Kerouac
But the moon waxes, and my sadness dries up. Life is like that, of course.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say." Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
When the furnace was completed, we figured it would require several days to dry, so as to be fit for use, and during this time I concluded to visit Killisnoo and buy a few luxuries as well as a bottle of Carter's Little Liver Pills, as I pretended to need some medicine.
~ Charles A. Siringo
The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade spaghetti drying on the clothesline. After the war Russell Bufalino liked the fact that I went right through his town. My
~ Charles Brandt