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Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
— Anzia Yezierska
Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert.
— Kiera Cass
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
— Preston Manning
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
— Robert Breault
with a scrap of bacon on her
— Solomon Northup
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
— Dorothy L. Sayers
She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
— George Sanders
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...
— Arthur Rimbaud
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
— E. O. Wilson
Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
— David Talbot
Twig-minx!" it screamed. "scrap-brat!
— Frances Hardinge
Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
— Sara Sheridan
We have a sign on our cafeteria bulletin board that says: Try Test Adjust Try Again Fail Modify Scrap Start Over
— Jack V. Matson
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
— Barry Lopez
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
— Edward O. Wilson
Scrap the UN," you'd said once. "Warring countries should just get a teenage daughter in the room.
— Rosamund Lupton
Then she too seemed to blow out of his life on the long wind like a third scrap of paper.
— William Faulkner
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored
— John Anderson
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
— Cynthia Ozick
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
She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.
— Rose Quiello
American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
— Elinor Glyn
If I ever feel like I'm doing something I've done before, I scrap it and start over again.
— Paul Newman
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
— W. Edwards Deming
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
— Evelyn Underhill
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
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
— Paulo Coelho
Hope is a thing made only for people, a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light — Katherine Applegate
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 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
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
— Robert Benchley
And without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.
— Erich Maria Remarque
For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Christopher Flavin
When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.
— Sheldon Harnick
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
— J.M. Coetzee
Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.
— Gail Carriger
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
— Charles Baudelaire
I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.
— Leonora Carrington
Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams. But fighters do what they do best when they've
— Charlie LeDuff
All too soon this bodyWill lie on the ground,
Cast aside, deprived of consciousness,
Like a useless scrap of wood. — Gautama Buddha
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— Thomas Aquinas
An elevator. The doors of the elevator were gone, as were the cab and the lift mechanism, sold for reuse or for scrap.
— Dean Koontz
We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth.
— Leo Tolstoy
The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars.
— Lauren DeStefano
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
— Lisa Cholodenko
I'm happy to scrap with you, Macey darling, but we might do a little too much damage in this small space.
— Colleen Gleason
You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.
— Dennis Lehane
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
