Dryly Or Drily Quotes & Sayings

He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices. — Charles Baxter

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest. — Solomon Northup

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner. — George A. Sheehan

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. — Jonathan Galassi

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. — Kevin Richardson

I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
How I was put on a platter and laid
between the mayonnaise and the bacon.
The rhythm of the refrigerator
had been disturbed. — Anne Sexton

She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart. — Cornelia Funke

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose. — Carlo Collodi

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. — John Morley

Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person's soul. — Kate Morton