I tend to like dry humor.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry – you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it’s kind of hilarious.
I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn’t know that was the name. I didn’t know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on a sharecropping farm. Working tremendously hard. Five years old, picking cotton and laying tobacco out to dry on a farm, and today he now owns that farm.
Napoleon’s The One Concealer is amazing. Pantene Styling Treatment Foam makes my stupid-crazy hair behave, and I love hair powders such as Aveda Pure Abundance and Batiste Dry Shampoo.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
If I wash my hair in the morning, then I usually air-dry it. In warmer weather, if I walk my dog, by the time I am back in, it is usually nice and dry!
If you have long hair that gets styled all the time, or if you’re dancing and working out, dry shampoo is essential because you don’t want to wash your hair every day.
I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That’s kind of my taste.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you’ve got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn’t as potent.
That’s my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
I find that acrylics dry very fast – which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don’t blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.
All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I’ll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.
Great sauces are like an insurance policy for venison roasts, which can easily overcook or dry out. Beyond their ability to rescue, however, is the power to elevate.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.
When struggling to get out of bed in the morning due to pain and exhaustion, the last thing on the priority list is going to get a blow dry.
What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am… a dry sense of humor.
Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British – I’m pasty white as well.
Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you’re out of work and don’t have anything to balance. I think people assume you’re always busy. You go through dry spells.
The legions of reporters who cover politics don’t want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom’s very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
I never use a towel to dry off my face. Instead, I put on toner when my skin is still damp.
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor.
I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.
I’m like the female version of George Clooney in ‘Up in the Air.’ I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that’s moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.
In this era of digital special effects, I think it’s good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water and clay, to dry it in the air from the sun. This brings you back to the element of life.
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool – how it keeps you cool when you’re hot, warm when you’re cold, dry when you’re wet.
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that’s where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
‘The Man Who Never Was,’ by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant – incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
I really believe that switching products is important, especially for skin. I’m switching from day to day. If I’m tired, if my skin is dry, if I have a pimple, if my hair has been overworked, I will do something different.
When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They’re hilarious: very dry and witty.
I’m really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that’s full-bodied and dry.
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.
I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.
I’m like a connoisseur of dry shampoo, so I’m really picky.
There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.
Science by itself is about numbers, and it’s about measuring things. It’s very important but it’s very dry.
Every time I feel like something is missing from a dish, I think, ‘Oh, I know, I’ll add a pinch of dry ginger.’ If it’s not salt and it’s not vinegar, it’s probably missing dry ginger.
I make sure that I exfoliate every single day. I have very dry and sensitive skin, and I break out occasionally, but my main thing is always moisturizing because my skin is so dry – whether that’s twice a day or four times a day.
I’d love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn – a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces – a less interesting game.
I have dry skin, but using oily products in the summer can get so gross.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
I can’t stand eating sliders because they’re often hard as a rock and they’re dry.
My hair is super fine, so I love using Batiste Dry Shampoo to give it volume after I shower and dry my hair. It also gives me extra body and texture for when I choose to wear my hair in a French braid.
I start off by cleansing with the Biore Baking Soda Acne Cleansing Foam. I’ve tried so many different acne products and what I love about this one is it’s very gentle and won’t dry your skin out, all while keeping acne in check.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
There was a period of time when I couldn’t seem to get anything. I was on the series ‘Daniel Boone,’ and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.
