Scrap Quotes
183 Scrap quotes by 167 unique authors
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Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.…
— Roger Caras
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Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The…
— Annie Dillard
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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
— Virginia Woolf
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Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to…
— Terry Goodkind
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Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.…
— Richard Brautigan
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Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of…
— Robert Ludlum
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Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap…
— Patrick O'Brian
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The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The…
— Paul Rand
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We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good,…
— Charles Dickens
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I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
— Salman Rushdie
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She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between…
— Markus Zusak
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Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair…
— Rick Riordan
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Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
— Sylvia Plath
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are…
— Umberto Eco
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What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And…
— Robin McKinley
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Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
— Barry Lopez
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his…
— Amy Tan
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
— Salman Rushdie
Who Wrote These Scrap Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 183 Scrap Quotes, led by these top contributors: