Quotes of: Damp Keyword

A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. "Why are you burning damp wood?" was his first comment.

Arabian

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

Iron Kissed

You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers on crippling you. But you got to stand and say "I thank you Lor...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

Kristin Kimball

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.

Selected Letters

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Ian Anderson

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

Du Fu

Norman Bates: Hate the smell of dampness, don't you? It's such a, I don't know, creepy smell.

Psycho

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Middlemarch

My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation.

Laurie Graham

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Willa Cather

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

American Gods

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.

Derek Jacobi

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.

Kyle MacLachlan

I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, but now reclaimed by the wilderness.

Lisa Tuttle

I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess.

Georgia Jagger

Blondie: If your friends stay out in the damp, they're liable to catch a cold aren't they... or a bullet.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

Carpe Corpus