#sap

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#general #general principles #leaves #principles #root

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. ↗

— Phil Collins

#bring #by the time #disappointment #fantastic #finished

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

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People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#american #american accent #band #because #disappointed

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. ↗

— David Copperfield

#disappeared #figures #magic #modern #occult

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

#board #bought #disappear #first #i

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#actually #death #disappeared #dying #emotion

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #coup #disappears #frustration #moments