Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom…

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned…

— Stephen Curry

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider…

— Wallace Stevens

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

— Andrew Sullivan

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see…

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart…

— Elizabeth I

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

— George R. R. Martin

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around…

— Tom Rush

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for…

— John Cage

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I…

— Karl Marx

The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee

— Big K.R.I.T

Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that…

— Marcus Garvey