#dry

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

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#capable #dry #humor #i #kind

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#cents #cereal #days #definitely #did

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself. ↗

— Jude Law

#ashamed #biggest #celebrity #dirty #ever

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#got #harlot #hasn #her #rule

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen. ↗

— Denis Leary

#good #i #kitchen #laundry #no problem

I can be very dry and sarcastic. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#i #i can #sarcastic #very

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#developing #drying #final #hour #operations

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#dry #emotionally #even #inaccurate #more

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry