Scrape Quotes
79 quotes by 73 authors
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When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
— Harper Lee
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles…
— Virginia Woolf
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And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic…
— Dave Barry
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It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
— John Knowles
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Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of…
— Frank Beddor
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Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road whenever you see…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the…
— Philip K. Dick
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight…
— Max Brooks
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He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean,…
— Stephen King
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Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from…
— Stephen King
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In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all…
— Jane Yolen
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How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together…
— Ilona Andrews
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There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going…
— Terry Goodkind
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Like when you scrape your knee and you get a scar, but then the scar fades so much that no one can see it but…
— Alyson Noel
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He looked at her levelly. There was something in his eyes, a sort of quizzical admiration; she wondered if it was simply admiration of Jessamine’s…
— Cassandra Clare
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This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let…
— John O'Donohue
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Money is a lubricant. It lets you "slide" through life instead of having to "scrape" by. Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want ,…
— T. Harv Eker
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