Lapping Quotes

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. (Ralph Steadman)

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats

Listen up-there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

Haruki Murakami

The stars are silent. Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow. There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.

Jack McDevitt

From his hole so wet and drenching a pike rose up to tree to sing when through the greyish net of clouds first gleam of day was seen and at the lake the lapping waves woke up with joyous mean the pike rose to the spruce's crone to take a bite at reddish cone.

Aaro Hellaakoski

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

Margaux Hemingway

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Spike Lee

Boredom, yes, as in those moments when the eyes stare without itinerary-when the brain's hard drive revolves at low rpm, uncoupled from regimen, responsibility, the whole Logistical Life that becomes one's life in the middle years, what Hinduism calls the Householder Phase, to do to do to do to do to do. But now alpha waves are lapping at the shore of the mind as you depart the secretarial for the sacramental realm.

Steven Heighton