Scraps Quotes

85 Scraps quotes by 81 unique authors

I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I… — Shane Black
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings. — Sophocles
Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed… — Clive James
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even… — Charles Frazier
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the… — Dennis Hastert
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on… — Ingmar Bergman
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. — Bob Dylan
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging… — Patti Smith
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and… — Alison Sweeney
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. — Edward Young
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the… — Alexandra Ripley
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and… — George Orwell
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.… — Roger Caras
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.… — Richard Brautigan
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of… — Robert Ludlum
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between… — Markus Zusak
Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to… — Sylvia Plath
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are… — Umberto Eco
What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And… — Robin McKinley

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