Top 163 Scraps Quotes & Sayings

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

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

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

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

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.

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 those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

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.

The problem is that the top five guys in UFC make all the money, and the rest make scraps.

The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

When I was younger and I'd get into scraps, someone would throw a punch, but next thing you know it's on the ground.

I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can imagine the little fights and scraps we had.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

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

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

I like a drink and enjoy being Jack the Lad. I've had a few scraps and spent a night in a cell.

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 together.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

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

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.

I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

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

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 over again as vice president of the United States?