Scrap Quotes

183 Scrap quotes by 167 unique authors

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at… — Swami Vivekananda
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like… — H.G. Wells
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a… — George Lincoln Rockwell
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean… — Howard Carter
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it. — W. Edwards Deming
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,… — William Faulkner
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J M Coetzee
I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I… — Shane Black
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures â€“ it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about… — Mark Weiser
I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and… — Dave Barry
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for… — Deepak Chopra
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. — Robert Breault
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings. — Sophocles
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never… — Mary Roach
Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed… — Clive James
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even… — Charles Frazier
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the… — Dennis Hastert

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