Scraping Quotes

42 Scraping quotes by 41 unique authors

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the… — Tom Rush
I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and… — Kristin Scott Thomas
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. — Wole Soyinka
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my… — Julian Castro
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. — Edie Falco
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's… — Wentworth Miller
The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library. — George R. R. Martin
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. — Andrew Sullivan
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… — John Cage
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was… — Elizabeth I
I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for… — Richard Schmid
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has… — Marcus Garvey
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have… — Karl Marx
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it… — Hilary Mantel
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. — Gore Vidal
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going… — Alice Munro
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect… — Warren Ellis
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we… — Alexandra Fuller
I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never… — Ellen Hopkins
Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron.… — Gena Showalter
In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate… — Suzanne Collins
If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and… — Suzanne Weyn

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