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Dripping Quotes

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

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

Scarlett Johansson
Burgers, Faces, Dripping
"Scarlett Johansson: Scarlett Woman". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. February 1, 2004.

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

Samuel Beckett
Heart, Dripping
"Endgame". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1957.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Ovid
Water, Stones, Dripping Water

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf
Sea, Genius, Dripping
The Common Reader "Notes on an Elizabethan Play" (1925)

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Marcel Duchamp
Lazy, Listening, Dripping

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring, Order, Dripping
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.434, e-artnow

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

Donald Barthelme
Dripping, Instant Gratification, Seasons
"The Bed". "Flying to America: 45 More Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 2007.

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

Diana Gabaldon
Naked, Crosses, Dripping

As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.

Christopher Pike
Blood, Thirsty, Dripping
Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

I know you love her. I’ve never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister’s fangs. Or I will.

Abbi Glines
Hate, Nans, Dripping
Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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