42 Scrap Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Pablo Picasso

Art Emotions Sky Spider Earth Paper Web Shape Over Come Passing Scrap Artist Place

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal. Ernest Cline

Me Mother Old Year Down Think Our Seven Top Months Out Tornado Brother Had Disc She Arms Pile Metal Yards Year-Old Trailer Scrap Quite Maybe Little Little Brother Landed Pregnant Sucked Even Away Lumber Her Set

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene

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

You Collaborate Willing Lot Scrap

Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our servicemen and servicewomen fighting terrorists who want to harm us. Amber Rudd

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments. Carrie Brownstein

Age Noise Band Own Keyboards Our Summer Neighbors Out Pretend Guitars Colors Make Instruments Built Fake Cover Duran Scrap Wood Formed Them Painted Even Bright Play

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court. Cliff Sloan

Justice College Every Everything Way Harry Paper Member Correspondence Seems He Supreme Supreme Court Court Boyhood Came His Years His Way Diaries Scrap Quirky Pivotal Kept

I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper. Dave Gibbons

Me Science Remember Superman First Own Books Paper Draw Vividly Superhero About My Own Point Bought Science Fiction Comic Comic Books Comics Scrap Fiction Wanted Which Used Specifically Copy Basically

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. Eddie Vedder

Say Still Continue Years Lot Forever Bands Get Scrap Rolling Quit Stones Rolling Stones Just Stops Where After The Who Certain Certain Level Who Compare Level Playing

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap. Emily Martin

Gone System Carries Only Failed Idea Also Making Scrap Produce Production Use Productive Products Connotation Specification Wasted Awry

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. Guy Fieri

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together. Hilary Mantel

Myself Together Book Way Bit Collage Running Threads Object Only Construct Between Like Know Make Narrative How Isolated Metaphor Dialogue Lines Scrap Common Different Holds Which Elaborate Description Here

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. J. G. Ballard

Future Alone Believe Other Possible Would Find All Writers Vocabulary Something Writers Ideas Deal Inevitably Were Existing Very Close Scrap Fiction Form Literature Themselves Producing Whole Present Images

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

Increasing Outcome Cost Toward Execute Efficiency Scrap Then Lowering Start

There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week. Johnny Christ

Song Feeling Numerous Numerous Times Week Part Still Were End Times Scrap Scratch Where Next Working Whole Thing Start

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us. Johnny Christ

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours. Joyce Carol Oates

Me Word Looking Too Paper Would Something Could Write Feel Develops Longhand Hours Revision Scrap Screen Mean Much Page Old-Fashioned Many Using Whole Novel Keep Fast Staring Things

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal. Keith Ellison

You Mechanic Car Philosophy Out Charge Something Take Instead Arm Like Conclude Metal Sell Leg Fix Fixing Goes Scrap Just Republican Should Your Engine Yours Mechanics

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