Scrap Quotes

183 Scrap quotes by 167 unique authors

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and… — Roseanne Barr
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone de Beauvoir
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad… — Ed Begley, Jr.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource. — Deepak Chopra
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than… — Eckhart Tolle
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. — Robert Benchley
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson
This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to… — Richard Blumenthal
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie." — Paulo Coelho
If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat… — Guy Fieri
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it… — Helen Keller
I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and… — Curtis Stone
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a… — Melanie McGrath
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now… — Virginia Woolf
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford… — Maggie Kuhn
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. — Eric Ambler
Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.… — Chris Hadfield
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. — Janet Napolitano
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and… — L. Neil Smith
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction.… — Lucian Freud
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers — Ryne Sandberg

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