Quotes About Rotten Apples

#1. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.

Rosamund Hodge

#3. The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

Peter Gould

#4. I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

Vincent Cassel

#5. We do not have a few "rotten apples"; we have a rotten-apple barrel and a pervasive culture of corruption.

Thomas J. Gradel

#6. I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen.

Najaf Mazari

#7. There's small choice in rotten apples.

William Shakespeare

#8. I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

Theodora

#9. Ana never saw the rotten apples littering the ground as she continually reached for the rare golden apple on the tree. Ana had stepped in a lot of rotten apples in her lifetime. She should have learned by now.

Travis Luedke

#10. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.

V. Raymond Edman

#11. Rogue turned to her, his face no longer quite so hard. A curl of smoke rose from the pistol in his hand. Rotten apples fell from the tree, splatting at her feet. "Poor little girlie," he said, and there did seem to be potty in his voice. "I told you you'd get your fingers bit.

Lena Coakley

#12. On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

Neal Shusterman

#13. From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her.

Max Beerbohm

#14. It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

Robyn Carr

#16. There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

William Shakespeare

#17. The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.

Steve Berry

#18. I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.

James Frey

#19. A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

#20. I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Joe Pantoliano

#21. They (Amish) don't take no for an answer.

Cynthia Keller

#22. Will you have a touch of ng-ka-py?"
"You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?"
"Yes. I can talk better with it."
"Maybe I can listen better," said Samuel.

John Steinbeck

#23. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

James Reston

#24. Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes.

Brandon Mull

#25. The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money.

Rick Warren