Scrap Quotes

183 quotes by 167 authors

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
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply,… — Mavis Gallant
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,… — Zelda Fitzgerald
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the… — Jane Hirshfield
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford
This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for… — Tony Abbott
For taxpayers, however, itâ€™s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money… — Stephen Harper
My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that… — Richard Russo
We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply… — Lydia Davis
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap… — Rich Mullins
You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every… — Brian Blade
I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all… — Vida Blue
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances;Â what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic… — Nicholas Delbanco
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap. — Evelyn Underhill
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Saunders

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