Dilapidated Old Quotes

#1. He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.

Haruki Murakami

#2. The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims - bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.

Frances Mayes

#3. If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Ted Williams

#4. We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

Gary Johnson

#5. In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

George Karl

#6. My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Phil Everly

#7. A contained feeling not expressed will end up disappearing one day. It's the same as seeing a dream, it will never become reality.

Shoko Hidaka

#8. [..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]

Douglas Adams

#9. Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

David Tennant

#10. How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

Rebecca Wells

#11. Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

Andy Biersack

#12. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren G. Bennis

#13. The knowledge of that unchanging rule produces a (grand) capacity and forbearance, and that capacity and forbearance lead to a community (of feeling with all things).

Lao-Tzu

#14. I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

Sherwood Smith

#15. I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

Chris Hughes

#16. Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.

Tan Twan Eng

#17. Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.

Alan Dean Foster