Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Baltasar Gracian

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Tiger Woods

Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two.

we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated.

Jennifer Connelly

The producers were great. They tried so hard to make it bearable. They got a hot tub so I could sit around and be warm between without having to dry off the whole time. But there was a lot trudging around in cold, dank water.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Charles R. Swindoll

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

Dan Glickman

We have just got to roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry weather crisis,

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

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?

The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder.

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

We had no offensive continuity. We just kind of sat around as if we really didn't know what to do and no matter what, we just couldn't get out of that dry spell.

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.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Keeping one hand dry and one hand wet is pretty elementary. Otherwise, you get 'Barney Rubble' fingers.

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Korean dry cleaners need Korean media to grow their businesses.

I think the navy was trying to get one up on us and trying to get us as wet as possible; we were going straight into the waves. But it's a nice enough day that it's going to dry out.

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It's not ideal, but it's better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

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.

Mary Roach

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Kelley Armstrong

When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.

Kelley Armstrong

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

He was making ground on Primus in Sydney and wet or dry I think he will run well at Caulfield because he has won there.

People are being taken to the nearest dry spot then the helicopter's going back and picking up more people.

Overall, we're entering a dry period, a little warmer period.

Our field is so completely saturated that the only way we'll be able to play Thursday's game is if it stays dry today.

Jamie Bamber

My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.