Scrap Quotes

183 Scrap quotes by 167 unique authors

There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on… — Ingmar Bergman
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make… — Alexander Calder
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is… — Graham Greene
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. — Bob Dylan
We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise… — Stephen Harper
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. — Dean Koontz
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a… — Joyce Carol Oates
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,… — Pablo Picasso
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. — Ayn Rand
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging… — Patti Smith
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and… — Alison Sweeney
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones… — Eddie Vedder
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. — Edward Young
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such… — Ken Kesey
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the… — Alexandra Ripley
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and… — George Orwell

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