Famous quotes containing the word moist:
“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocers shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“I love the word warm.
It is almost unbearable
so moist and breathlike.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Your wits cant thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. Youve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
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