Scrape Quotes

79 quotes by 73 authors

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it… — Bryan Adams
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around… — Harlan Coben
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and… — Charles Edward Montague
You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered… — Matthew Antoine
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it. — Velimir Khlebnikov
Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the… — Aisha Tyler
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at… — William James
Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must… — Socrates
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the… — Agatha Christie
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press — Michael Hutchence
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… — John Milton
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they… — Isaac Barrow
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. — David F. Houston
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape. — John Updike
Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we… — Shane Koyczan
I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to… — Charles Bukowski
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort… — Elizabeth Aston

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