Dryland Quotes & Sayings

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Project is a self-contained phrase and may or may not be capable of elaboration. — R.K. Narayan

Is it love? I don't know," he said truthfully. "Sometimes I think I'm just addicted to him. Or that he's cast some kind of horrible curse on me where I'm to follow him for the rest of my life, doomed to fall for his lies over and over again. — Bey Deckard

the continent with the highest proportion of its dryland areas classified as severe or moderately desertified is North America, at 74 percent. — Judith D. Schwartz

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up — Sahndra Fon Dufe

What isn't said is as important as what is said. — Colson Whitehead

It's a cakewalk, when you know how. — Gerry Lopez

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. — Edith Wharton

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. — Rick Perry

I have no apartment and no job. I have no steady relationship or even a city to call home. I have no idea what I want to be doing with my life, no idea what my purpose is, and no real sign of a life goal. And yet time has found me. The years I've spent dilly-dallying around at different jobs in different cities show on my face. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck. — Rick Moody

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once. — Elizabeth Meriwether

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. — William Goldman

In Mary this petition has been granted: she is, as it were, the open vessel of longing, in which life becomes prayer and prayer becomes life. Saint John wonderfully conveys this process by never mentioning Mary's name in his Gospel. She no longer has any name except "the Mother of Jesus".1 It is as if she had handed over her personal dimension, in order now to be solely at his disposal, and precisely thereby had become a person. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche