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Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. -- Dorothy Dix
Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love. -- Thom Yorke
I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. -- Gabriel Lippmann
One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. -- Nick Cave
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying. -- Walter Payton
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener. -- Maira Kalman
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. -- Amanda Beard
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. -- Phyllis McGinley
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. -- Pam Brown
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets. -- Naomi Watts
Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget. -- Ezra Taft Benson
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells. -- Kelley Armstrong
Hell is life drying up. -- Joseph Campbell
Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. -- Drake
Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying. -- James Richardson
I'm still blow drying my hair, just trying to keep doing stuff that's fun. -- David Spade
We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories. -- Albert Einstein
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. -- John Muir
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them? -- Chinua Achebe
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. -- Lord Byron
People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. -- Prince Philip
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! -- Umberto Eco
Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?! -- Stephen Colbert
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. -- Margaret Atwood
I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens -- Louisa May Alcott
It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity. -- Kolbein Falkeid
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program. -- Barton Gellman
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain. -- Ernest Hemingway
An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'. -- Hugh Leonard
In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense. -- John Edward Williams
The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns? -- Aesop
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction. -- Max Lerner
Germany is the new pig. Germany depends on exports and its markets are drying up. When the Germans start getting 10% unemployment, 15% unemployment, which is the real variable, how are they going to handle it? -- George Friedman

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