Scrap Quotes

• One only has to watch aging siblings scrap over the worthless pots and pans and scuffed furniture of a deceased parent's estate- like toddlers over toys- to see how desperate is the need to wrest some last, pathetic, tangible measure of their parent's devotion.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Parents
  • Worthless
  • Scrap

• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Brain
  • Madness
  • Scrap

• Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Grinning

• 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 scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Past
  • Emptiness
  • Minute

• I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Time
  • Firsts

• When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Careers
  • Forty

• 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 rich bigger meals.

  

  William Blum
  • Giving
  • Rich
  • Poor

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Language
  • Communication
  • Stolen

• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reality
  • Casual
  • Daffodil

• The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Differences

• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Science
  • Oil
  • Refuse

• At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Faces
  • Might
  • Covered

• A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Knowledge
  • Scrap
  • Triviality

• Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Children
  • Brain

• Bernard Leach was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Beautiful
  • Wish
  • Incredibles

• When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

  

  Sheldon Harnick
  • Willing
  • Collaborate
  • Scrap

• But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Father
  • Freedom
  • Born

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

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Strange

• I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Wise

• If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Feels
  • Scrap