Quotes About Wet

To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history;

Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky. Either They have put him here for a reason, or he's just here. He isn't sure that he wouldn't actually, rather have that reason…

He steers a Loxodrome for the cabinet where ardent Spirits are kept for Guests of the Wet Persuasion, and pretends to weigh his Choice.

You from the IRS? The man's voice was deep and wet, like mud slipping down a drain.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

dripping-wet Gloss

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in the look of a dog, like a square of wax, like a fire taking city hall, the county, the continent, like fire taking the hair of maidens and monsters; and hawks buzzing in peach trees, the sea running between their claws, Time drunk and damp, everything burning, everything wet, everything fine.

Time drunk and damp, everything burning, everything wet, everything fine.

What about Clinton? I asked. He's pretty interesting. Ugh. Dad looked disgusted. That guy. He could stand out in the rain all day and not get wet.

Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.

THE MINUTE YOU LAND IN NEW ORLEANS, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get the aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.

There would be sadness and nightmares. And there would be lovemaking and the holding close of children and friends and dogs -- affirmations of life in the cold wet night.

spitting a stinging rain

The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

Look at the state of you. Get some of those wet clothes off and chuck them on the radiator.' 'Do you always boil a saucepan of sprouts for at least two hours?' Bryant asked. 'What?' said May, thrown. 'No.' 'Good, then you're not my mother.' He struggled out of his overcoat and found that his damp brown sweater had lengthened dramatically.

I never really knew the weight of sorrow before, how it stretches you out like an old, wet sweater.

How very wet this water is.

Her body may have been wrought with diamonds, but her soul within will be a soft mollusk thing, wet and shrinking...and easily pushed aside.

You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade." "It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around.

I don't like the rain forest," Ragnor said sadly. "That's because you are not open to new experiences in the same way I am!" "No, it is because it is wetter than a boar's armpit and twice as smelly here." Magnus pushed a dripping frond out of his eyes. "I admit you make an excellent point and also paint a vivid picture with your words.

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.