Quotes of: Scrap Keyword

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Joanna Lumley

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

Janet Napolitano

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Alexander Chase

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

David Talbot

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Simone de Beauvoir

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

John Updike

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

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Ayn Rand

It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about "Give me your hungry...your oppressed...give me pretty much everybody"-that's the way I remember it, anyway....

The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Love's Labour's Lost

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Sara Sheridan

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: There is magic in fighting battles beyond endurance

Million Dollar Baby

If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

Mary Roach

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Strong Poison

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.

Ryne Sandberg

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Richard Morris

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

J. M. Coetzee

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Allegra Huston

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

First Drop of Crimson

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

A Room of One's Own