Top 200 Scrap Quotes & Sayings

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

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

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

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.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

Normally I don't have a scrap of makeup on me when I'm on the radio.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

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

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.

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

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

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

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

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

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

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

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

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

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

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

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.

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.

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

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

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.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.

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

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

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.

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

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

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

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.