Scrap Quotes

Scrap Quote of the day

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

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

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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.

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.

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

Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.

Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

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

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

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

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

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

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

The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

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.

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

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

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

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

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

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.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.

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?

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

[Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.