Dilapidate Quotes

#1. The original meaning of dilapidate (from the Latin dilapidare, to squander) was to allow a building to fall into a state of disrepair. In New York dilapidators are simply known as landlords. also

Ammon Shea

#2. Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.

S.A. Tawks

#3. Sounds like you've got it all planned out."
"Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes."
"And that's a lot." I laugh.
"It sure is," she says with a sigh.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#4. The Boy came to me in the autumn of 2009. He was in a corner of my mind, choking on his own bad dreams, begging a man not to have him do the thing again.

I didn't want to know what the thing was, so I hid The Boy in a crowd of less troubling voices.

Magaly Guerrero

#5. It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Deborah Bull

#6. Kiss me, babe."'
"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night.

Rachel Gibson

#7. Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination ...

Kate Morton

#8. The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

George R. Stewart

#9. As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Christina Hendricks

#10. Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Eleanor Roosevelt