Top 282 Dried Quotes & Sayings

It's hard as a striker. It's cut and dried. Your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.

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.

Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

Nothing worse than a piece of dried out fish.

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

This is what I spend money on, dried fruit.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

I had seen an image of these hanging persimmons that are dried during the winter and turned into sweet, dried fruit. And I really like the idea of this very bitter, hard fruit before it's ripened - on display and slowly maturing and turning sweeter and letting its environment impact it. It felt like a very fitting metaphor for where I've come from.

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

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.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

I'd like to get up and instantly have perfectly blow-dried hair.

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.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to eat in a break.

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.

I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Completely dried up, They've become beans.

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

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

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

Dried fruit is a huge part of my diet. Mango, persimmon, banana.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.