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Quotes About Damp

Huele a encerrado, a moho, a rancio; produce frío, es húmeda, penetra los vestidos; posee el sabor de una habitación en la que se ha comido; apesta a servicio, a hospicio.
~ Honore de Balzac
It's damp outside, and I'm always cold. Most days I wear a cap and shawl indoors." "I could suggest other methods to keep yourself warm.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Well Katy Perry, I may be a firework, but I am one that is damp from being left out in a leaky shed.
~ Unknown
There was a chill in the air, to be sure, a damp cool vapour drifting round corners and rising from drains. But I had just come from London, where November vapours were like ill-intentioned hands sliding beneath your collar to encircle your coat-chafed, chicken-skinned throat, where November winds cut more deeply than my stolen scalpel ever did.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
There was a damp crack as the flesh and bones of the dead finally failed, and the gate slammed shut.
~ Rachel Caine
In the damp sand, the footprints of two men arc from the beached boat to the stairway
~ Dean Koontz
Actually, it wasn't bad," Claire said, surprisingly. "Mullein leaves are really very nice; quite as good as two-ply bathroom tissue. And in the winter or indoors, it was usually a bit of damp rag; not very sanitary, but comfortable enough.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Grey was still in his shirtsleeves; the rain had cut through the cloth to his flesh.
~ Diana Gabaldon
were perpetually damp
~ Diana Gabaldon
to dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to
~ Diana Gabaldon
FEBRUARY IN SALINAS is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries. The heaviest rains fall then, and if the river is going to rise, it rises then. February of 1915 was a year heavy with water.
~ John Steinbeck
We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.
~ Phyllis Diller
By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.
~ Unknown
Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing . . .
~ Matt Haig
air smelled heavy and damp, like an unventilated attic. Assuming
~ Unknown
she walked into her bathroom, stripped, and entered the shower. The door opened a minute later to expose Riley standing there, beer in hand. Scraping damp strands of red off her face, she glared at him. "I don't remember giving you an invitation." "You said to amuse myself while you shower." A slow, slow, deliciously slow smile. It said gotcha
~ Nalini Singh
It's a hot night; the air feels damp, like there's a storm brewing.
~ Naomi Alderman
When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.
~ Natsuo Kirino
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
~ Neil Gaiman
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach," I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. " ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.
~ Patricia Briggs
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.
~ Patricia Briggs
It tastes like wet mittens.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
~ Pete Hamill