Dry Quotes

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Idea

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran

Spring, Water, Avoid

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

Single, Worth, Interest

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Future, Stupid, Strong

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

Means, Dirty, Clean

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Nature, Power, Human

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes

Sun, Dream, Happens

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Good, Heart

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin

Water, Sincere, Iron

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Vidal Sassoon

Woman, Before, Working

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
Colin Powell

Keep, Matter, Support

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed

Life, Sleep, Woman

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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Love, Living

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Her, She

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

Laugh, Eyes, Keep

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

Live, Old, Again

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell

Faith, God, Keep

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
Clement Clarke Moore

Before, Sky, Full

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life, Hope, Spring

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck

Alone, Live, Place

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman

Sun, Put, Worry

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens

Life, Spiritual, Emotional

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley

Why, Wet, Martini

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell

Trust, God, Put

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
Liam Neeson

Science, Understand, Able

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
Mel Brooks

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Miguel de Cervantes

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
Joe Biden

Another, Left, Senator

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.
Gary Oldman

Change, Human, After

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