I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
I really like just super dry comedy.
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.
The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down. . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?. . . . Sabbathless Satan!
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.
No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish. . . Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.