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Dripping water hollows out a stone -- Ovid
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. -- Ovid
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. -- Scarlett Johansson
It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. -- Jim Bakker
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. -- Eric Bogosian
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.) -- Ovid
Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder -- Jean Toomer
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. -- Robert Breault
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. -- Hilda Doolittle
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -- Lucretius
All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head. -- Samuel Beckett
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. -- Virginia Woolf
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. -- Albert Camus
Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping? -- Lady Gaga
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. -- James Payn
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it. -- Marcel Duchamp
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. -- Henry Rollins
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good. -- Amy Lowell
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night -- Allen Ginsberg
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance. -- Roger Ebert
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. -- Helen Fielding
I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts. -- Rigoberta Menchu
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. -- T. S. Eliot
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. -- Malcolm X
I've recently discovered Cardiobar. It's in L.A. and it has Cardio Aerobics. It's all women with no shoes on, dancing to upbeat music. I'm just dripping sweat at the end of the class. It's very fun for me, and it makes me want to work out. -- Amber Stevens
People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?' -- Peter Baynham
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work. -- Keith Haring
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult. -- Damon Galgut
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work. -- Keith Haring
I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor. -- Mike deGruy
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it. -- Martin Jacques
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away. -- Simone de Beauvoir
You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel! -- Leonard Ravenhill
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean. -- Danny Pino
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on. -- Ray Bradbury
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away. -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest. -- Matsuo Basho
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles. -- Fannie Hurst
Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in -- Yoko Ono
Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments. -- Anne Sexton
Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts. -- Dolora Zajick
Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face. -- James Corden
Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well. -- Samuel Woodworth
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. -- Donald Barthelme
The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots. -- Gary Snyder
Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke. -- Alfred Austin
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. -- Stephenie Meyer
By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn. -- Ovid
When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me. -- Steven Ramirez
In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango -- Tori Amos
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water. -- Gautama Buddha
I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us. -- James Patterson
The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger. -- Jarod Kintz
Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. â??Come and get me. -- Cassandra Clare
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious. -- Roald Dahl
There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another -- Kathleen Tessaro
Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love? -- Isaac Marion
I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in. -- Karen Allen
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing. -- James Elkins
Hey, Carlos, the Professor says when he walks inHow was REACH?It sucked.Can you be more specific? my guardian asks.It really sucked, I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word. -- Simone Elkeles
Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief. -- Joan Didion
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion. -- Anthony Loyd
Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word. -- Simone Elkeles
Your Grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and was always dripping in sweat." There goes my appetite. -- Gena Showalter
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him? -- Malcolm X
How did that go?' he asked. â??Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?' â??Fabulous,' said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. â??We're planning a June wedding. -- Eoin Colfer
I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying. -- Elizabeth Chandler
"¦ it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed. -- Markus Zusak
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands. -- Natalie Goldberg

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