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  • Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts. -- Irma S. Rombauer
  • Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one. -- Howard Finster
  • Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet. -- Daniel Amen
  • My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete. -- T-Pain
  • You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul. -- Bob Dylan
  • Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face. -- Marlene Dietrich
  • For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. -- Ree Drummond
  • If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza. -- Nick Offerman
  • One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. -- Charles de Lint
  • Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. -- Orville Redenbacher
  • Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. -- Rachael Ray
  • I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed. -- Martin Yan
  • Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. -- Ann Richards
  • Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. -- Michael Gambon
  • I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients. -- Joe Bastianich
  • I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried. -- Hume Cronyn
  • I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do. -- Emraan Hashmi
  • Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted hazelnuts, chopped ham hock meat, and other taste treats. -- Tom Douglas
  • I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. -- John Bachman
  • I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything. -- Joel Madden
  • At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers. -- Nick Mancuso
  • The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. -- Chuck Jones
  • Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. -- Elton Gallegly
  • When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen. -- Hilary Mantel
  • We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time. -- Cat Cora
  • Completely dried up, They've become beans. -- Santoka Taneda
  • Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing. -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. -- Paul Rudd
  • Nothing worse than a piece of dried out fish. -- Bob Saget
  • Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. -- Cyril Connolly
  • I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. -- Thom Gunn
  • Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
  • And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried? -- Tori Amos
  • Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
  • Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon. -- Tite Kubo
  • A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one -- Priyansh Shah
  • Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God. -- Scott Stapp
  • Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. -- William Shakespeare
  • The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. -- Andre Breton
  • After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone. -- Alfre Woodard
  • I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't. -- William Shakespeare
  • The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. -- Harold Clurman
  • When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps. -- Markus Zusak
  • Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. -- Richard Flanagan
  • Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar. -- Matthew McConaughey
  • The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day. -- Tamara Ecclestone
  • The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. -- Neville Cardus
  • I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is -- Charles de Lint
  • I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor. -- Chris Christie
  • I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried. -- Kelly Corrigan
  • For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
  • Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick") -- J. K. Rowling
  • When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat. -- Wayne Coyne
  • I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
  • God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. -- Anne Sexton
  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! -- Coco Chanel
  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. -- Coco Chanel
  • I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can. -- Anne Bronte
  • His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. -- Maile Meloy
  • Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. -- Adrienne Rich
  • The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry. -- Jan Morris
  • ...and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds. -- David Wong
  • The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. -- Wallace Stegner
  • I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up. -- Stanislaw Lem
  • Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot. -- Lauren Oliver
  • Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. -- Isabella Bird
  • They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried. -- Athol Fugard
  • You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones. -- Griffin Jay
  • After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since. -- Ted Nordhaus
  • If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up. -- Matthew Henry
  • Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords. -- A. A. Milne
  • Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had. -- Natalia Marx
  • This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back. -- Langston Hughes
  • It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. -- Philip Reeve
  • Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson) -- William James
  • My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs. -- Caio Fonseca
  • Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again. -- Piers Anthony
  • I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there. -- Sam Donaldson
  • Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. -- Honore de Balzac
  • To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. -- Denis Diderot
  • ...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator. -- John Piper
  • It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong. -- Jo Coudert
  • The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. -- Florence Nightingale
  • People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up. -- Minnie Driver
  • The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome -- Claudia Roden
  • The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair. -- Jones Very
  • Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?" -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly. -- Simon R. Green
  • The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the night a red lace on the milky blue sky -- William Carlos Williams
  • My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! -- Emily Carr
  • I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. -- Shirley Jackson
  • And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich. -- Rose Fyleman
  • I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. -- Patton Oswalt
  • In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds. -- Diane Ackerman
  • 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck! -- William Shakespeare
  • It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say. -- Kyra Sedgwick
  • But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried. -- Michelle Moran
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