Scraps Quotes
85 quotes by 81 authors
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all…
— John McCain
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
— William Shakespeare
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
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I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and…
— Curtis Stone
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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a…
— Melanie McGrath
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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
— Eric Ambler
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
— Chris Hadfield
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I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers
— Ryne Sandberg
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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply…
— Lydia Davis
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I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all…
— Vida Blue
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances;Â what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.
— Rumi
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No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would…
— Steve Perry
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Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation…
— Clint Catalyst
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the…
— William Blum
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It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back…
— Julia Alvarez
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We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
— Umberto Eco
Who Wrote These Scraps Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 85 Scraps Quotes, led by these top contributors: