Scrap Quotes
183 Scrap quotes by 167 unique authors
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Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and…
— Jessica Day George
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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate…
— Robertson Davies
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But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You…
— Lauren Oliver
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he…
— Beatrix Potter
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...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
— Thomas Bernhard
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I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around…
— Daniel Handler
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But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
— C.S. Lewis
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Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?
— Greg Behrendt
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Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I…
— Brian Jacques
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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
— Lauren Oliver
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions…
— MacDonald Harris
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Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps…
— Isaac Marion
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I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a…
— David Levithan
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Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone…
— Athol Fugard
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
— Virginia Woolf
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our…
— Nikki Giovanni
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When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and…
— Joseph Campbell
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Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
— Noel Coward
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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who Wrote These Scrap Quotes
167 authors contributed a total of 183 Scrap Quotes, led by these top contributors: