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“When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips... It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...”

Profound Lips Woman Distrust Weapon Dripping Honeyed

Author:Virginia Alison

“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.”

Knows Way Firsts Dream Black Know How First Time Clean Grandmother Nightmare Pot Recipes Dreams Come True Cuba Ceilings Beans Cuban Dripping Great Grandmother

Author:Danny Pino

“My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.”

Ideas Moments Perfect Watches Special Painting Type Shapes Filled Everyday Details Mood Realistic Everyday Life Viewers Surrealism Grotesque Dripping Surrealist Special Moments

Author:Ian Hornak

“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.”

People Heart Water Rocks Mark Dripping Drop Of Water Dripping Water

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”

“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.”

Would Be Dark Week Rain Clouds Relief Gray Apartment Ceilings Manhattan Dripping

Author:Joan Didion

“Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.”

Fire Week Summer Smoke Autumn Drifting Dripping

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“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.”

Ideas Artist Memories Paint Oil Breathing Pushing Brushes Mixing Dripping Blurry

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.”

Seasons Instant Gratification Dripping Instant Gratification

Author:Donald Barthelme

“So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.”

Mind Left Hair Cold Gold Blind Wings Shining Woods Flying Dust Branches Dull Grey My Thoughts Of My Mind Dripping Cocoons Brushing Gold Dust

Book:Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

Source: Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

“The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.”

Littles Dream Lying Sleep Fantasy Too Much Sea Drink Truth Is Rivers Fishes Arise Boat Lakes Fishing Schemes Elusive Fisherman Toss Mermaid Trout Dripping Moody Cranky Daft Haggard

Author:John D. Voelker

“Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”

Ifs Hands Fingers Nervous Dripping Icicles

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.”

Youth Pearls Slipping Dripping

Author:Louise Imogen Guiney

“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.”

“Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.”

“If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.”

Ifs Want Years Stills Fighting Water Boys Sea Theory Gay Shots Standing Boat Captains Homosexuality Deck Diving Dolphins Sponges Standing There It Is What It Is Dripping Torso

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.”

“By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”

Use Earth Grows Water Practice Stones Constant Rings Worn Dripping Dripping Water

Author:Ovid

“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”

Men Long Song Father Sound Water Music Hair Return Musician Spring Crosses Depth Edges Fishes Curse Old Man Village Midnight Mistress Our Father Violin Dripping Long Hair Perdition Mulattoes

Author:Jacques Roumain

“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”

Together Song Courses Sound Water Nature Sky Fields Reflection Red Garden Rivers Sight Track Grass Tall Fleeting Clay Crops Sunny Reeds Canals Dripping Containers Ripening Splashing Gourds

Author:Jacques Roumain

“In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.”

Should Heart May States Whole Cutting Tree Highest Standing Dry Drains Usefulness Trunks Sap Drained Dripping

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.”

Believe Singers Experts Throat Believe In Me Dripping

Author:Dolora Zajick

“My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.”

Ifs Years Turns House Left Clear Dangerous Wall Empty Satisfaction Horrible Latter Grandmother Suspicion Electricity My Grandmother Turn Off Bulbs Dripping Off The Wall Leakage

Author:James Thurber

“A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.”

Men Helping Three Walks Break Car Rain Down And Phones Miles Wet Breaking Down Dripping

Author:Victoria Wood

“They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.”

Humans Heart Whole Fighting Kindness Laughing Towns Lists Symbols Pretending Milk Phony Dripping Human Kindness

Author:Ben Hecht

“The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.”

Sides Sight Sacred Beloved Underworld Dripping Maggots

Book:A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds

Source: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds

“I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O'Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.”

Trying Shows Remember Audience Sells Track Boxes Breasts Broadway Dripping Annie Rosie Pippin Latex Rosie O Donnell

Author:Boy George

“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

“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?”

People Knows Men Want Hate Black White Blood Asking Fingers Black People White Man Audacity Dripping Hate Him

Author:Malcolm X

“I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.”

Stills Faces Burgers Dripping Ketchup

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“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.”

Thinking World Important Film Lost Hurt Blood Wall Screens Cinema Sci Fi Dripping

Author:Karen Allen

“Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.”

Ends Faces Your Face Cheese Dripping Fondue

Author:James Corden

“What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.”

People Knows Trying Kind Bigs Happens Turns Courses Hot Add Library Heat Handful Liquid Dripping Flour

Author:Alton Brown

“My life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way by starting the school-prayer case. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.”

“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.”

Knows Whole Remember Felt Lines Like You Honor Cameras Microphones Dishonor Dripping Dripping Water

Author:Jim Bakker

“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.”

Thinking Stills Faces Night Felt Sleep Heard Middle Cry Bed Rain Window Dry Slips Weeping Middle Of The Night Dripping Night Thinking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“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.”

Wall Mouths Caught Tongue Wet Delicious Juice Ceilings Peaches Sticky Dripping

Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.”

Way Turns Path Saws Air Objects Sweet Bed Summer Fairs Raised Legs Burning Poison Recalls Belly Foul Shameless Dripping Swollen Lustful Gravel Nonchalant

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“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.”

Ends Dies Waiting Hours Memories Sun Minutes Wounds Lifts Unhappiness Racing Scar Sugar Fades Fade Away Dripping Hurrying Sun Set

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“"I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.”

Long Said I Can Body Asks Water Angel Fishes Dinner Skinny Joining Fangs Dripping Maximum Ride

Author:James Patterson

“If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.”

Ifs Whole Kindness Cutting Fine Ears Shining Clouds Edges Whole Life Heal Tone Poison Insult Injury Knives Tenderness Echoes Consolation Ravens Dripping Foreshadowing Villette Answering The Call

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“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”

Dream America Night Walks Doors Journey Sea Tears Western Highways Howl Cottages Dripping

Book:Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4

Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4

“2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.”

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”

Trying May Children Sky Broken Months Blue Clouds Warm Holes Sunshine Honey Bowls Dripping

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”

Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark

“Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.”

Giving Said Girl Paper Breaths Meetings Ice Chocolate Chests Cream Ice Cream Stains Fangs Dripping Hmm Cones Napkins Hissing Ice Cream Cones Dabs

Author:James Patterson

“A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.”

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King