Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dave Matthews

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing, you seek up an emotion sometimes your well is dry

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.

Having our lawyers back in town working will jumpstart the dry cleaners, the drug stores, the gas stations. They need us as customers.

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.

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 tangibly had nothing, and he was up there thanking God for all that he had. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.

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.

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.

We've been pulling them off sometimes four at a time, sometimes as many as 12, ... People are being taken to the nearest dry spot then the helicopter's going back and picking up more people.

Adam McKay

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

(Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. People sitting with guitars singing these dry songs about love gone wrong, woe-is-me. It's somewhat self-indulgent. Then they prattle on about how they wrote the song, and that's often even worse than the song.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

Andre Leon Talley

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

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

We can't seem to get a dry weekend.

We've handled this dry spell so far because the reservoirs were in good shape. We need normal precipitation soon or we'll be in trouble.

We've had one storm after another, but the rivers have gotten one day or two to dry out a bit.

E. P. Thompson

We all went around the table, telling stories, and Marc batted cleanup, as always. There weren't many dry eyes.

This year, the whole state is dry at the same time.

Michael Chertoff

There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.

We think that foreign buying, which has been a key support for the market, may dry up until the state of emergency is lifted.

We're out of RRSP season now and that's going to dry up a lot of flows.

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.

Korean dry cleaners need Korean media to grow their businesses.