Famous Quotes & Sayings

We tend to concentrate our volunteers in the two dry seasons, spring and fall. The worst things are rain-outs.

We went dry a little bit. We couldn't find the range, but that's how it goes.

Anthony Hopkins

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Don McLean

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Douglas Adams

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

Dougray Scott

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Bob Farrell

We haven't had rain for three weeks and everything is dry so they should be very careful.

Unfortunately, there's a threat we could stay dry through May or June. That's the significance of this thing.

Thomas Perry

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

Tina St. John

I’m not going to leave you here to bleed my friend dry.” “If that had been my intent, they’d already be dead on the floor.

Sherman Alexie

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.

Nicholson Baker

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Nora Roberts

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Louis L'Amour

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

Obviously, everyone knows we have had a dry summer, and as a consequence we had significantly improved water sales this summer,

David Hallberg

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

Because of the dry weather we had to pick spots less prone to serious issues.

Fred has an impish sort of humor, but sort of a dry humor.

For such eggs, if they are kept in cold, dry storage for half to one month, they may still be used, because that would kill the virus. Or you wash the egg.

If it stays pretty dry out there, the tournament is still won and lost on the greens. Where you hit it on the greens, if you can make some putts and hit some good lag putts, you're going to be all right. The greens, I still think, make the whole golf course.

Jodi Picoult

She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, ever, would it eventually shrivel up and dry away? Was there a natural selection involved in not speaking up?

She didn't like the off-track the first time. I think she just runs better on the dry track.

Richard Selzer

If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

James Agee

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

George Thorogood

You know when your mouth a-gettin' dry, you're plenty high

George Orwell

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Gary Oldman

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Annika Sorenstam

Hopefully, by the weekend, it will dry and it will play a little different.

Jeaniene Frost

You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones

Franz Kafka

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.