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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

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

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

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

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

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard. — Peter Zilahy

Grab it while you can - grab every scrap of happiness while you can — Noel Coward

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

Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap! — Pat Mills

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

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. — Dean Koontz

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

Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would. — Lain Ehmann

I tossed it on a pile with the coat, my stiff-with-cold jeans and the expensive scrap of silk that had been wedged up my ass for the past half hour. — Karen Chance

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

When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history. — Don DeLillo

(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over. — Danielle Ganek

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

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

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

We must savor every moment given us," she stressed. "We know not where this journey ends so we must wring each scrap of joy out of it while it lasts. — James Rollins

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 body
Will 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

A scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels, — Donna Tartt

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

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

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

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or dragons, or eagles. — George R R Martin