Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

The metal here is in a very dry area, so that's a plus. The wreckage is in a secure place, so that's a plus. And it's not widely known it's here, and that's a plus.

Some teachers are upset because it wasn't as smooth as it should have been. But this was a dry run for us.

We could use that lake dry if we're not careful.

We do not know the value of water until we go dry

Without it, we'd just dry up, the farms, the town, everything.

John James Audubon

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.

Will Rogers

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

John Knowles

There's been a lot of misinformation out there. I think they're leaving a lot of people high and dry at very short notice.

There will not be a dry eye. I think the stars are lining up.

The schedule of the terminal's opening has yet to be decided. We fear that there are legal issues that may be jeopardized if we open or do a dry run.

George Herbert

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

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.

You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle.

Government can be so dry to teach. Once we got into it, the kids really enjoyed this.

For the most part it was dry rot, not just externally but internally where we opened it up.

Hilaire Belloc

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Henry Cisneros

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

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.

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Richard Johnson

The ground is saturated underneath and it doesn't have enough time to dry out between storms.

This is our first dry run. Whenever you do something the first time, there are always problems to be worked out. It's very important, because you can imagine if we had to run 13,000 people through here, we need to practice it.

This has not been a very friendly year for sorghum. We've had a very dry spring, summer and early fall.

Agriculture would dry up. There wouldn't be any agriculture. There wouldn't be enough people to get the job done.

You want to make sure no one gets hurt, especially in training type situations. So, teamwork is very, very important. That's why we had so many dry runs.

Sheila Ballantyne

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Shel Silverstein

If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore

The dry mill is less costly to install.

The fuels are so dry up here it will take a lot more than what we'll get this weekend to put this fire down.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

John Oliver

Americans just don't understand dry wit.