Sapless Quotes

#1. Bring me your Nortons, your Kramdens, your housewives, and sewermen.
Weight my limbs with the nests of your flotsam, that we may chirp in chorus this melancholy anthem.
Mourn with your busdriver piety this sapless husk;
dull with your tender hymn the string of the lumberman's axe.

Daniel Clowes

#2. The plow of mortality drives through the stubble, turns over rocks and sod and weeds to cover the old, the worn-out, the husks, shells, empty seedpods and sapless roots, clearing the field for the next crop. A ruthless, brutal process - but clean and beautiful.

Edward Abbey

#3. There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.

George C. Lorimer

#4. Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.

John Ruskin

#5. Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable ...

Miles Franklin

#6. As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

Anthony Holden

#7. Shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator

Megan Boyle

#8. To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. You can't reason with a nightmare

Terry Goodkind

#10. Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#11. The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having.

Dov Davidoff

#12. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!

Kanye West

#13. When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

Mark Cuban

#14. Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

James Baldwin

#15. Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Martin Luther

#17. I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

Hilary Duff