Scraps Quotes

85 quotes by 81 authors

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.
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
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
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman
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
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
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. — Eric Ambler
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
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers — Ryne Sandberg
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
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
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
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
Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. — Rumi
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
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
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
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
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. — Umberto Eco

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