Quotes of Scrap - somelinesforyou

“ Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too. ”

- Walt Alston

“ I'm really white trash. ”

- George Clooney

“ I couldn't care less about who sees my bits… My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut! ”

- Colin Farrell

“ It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ”

- William Gibson

“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison. ”

- Thomas Edison

“ Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. ”

- Mary O’Hara

“ The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form… ”

- Gabriele Lusser Rico

“ You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action… ”

- Luis Bunuel

“ We finally got on the front row of an awards show. ”

- Natalie Maines

“ If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ”

- Flavia Weedn

“ We're probably half way through this phase. There's still quite a bit that can be done, but the key foundation pieces have been put in place. ”

- Bill Gates

“ Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. ”

- John Milton

“ Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. ”

- Christopher Paolini

“ A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ”

- John Hancock

“ I never take my own side in a quarrel. ”

- Robert Frost

“ When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together. ”

- Elizabeth Gray Vining

“ The philosophy exam was a piece of cake — which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. ”

- Socrates

“ Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces. ”

- Judith Viorst

“ Do your little bit of good where you care; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand. ”

- Anne Ford

“ It's sore a little bit, but I'm gonna do everything today. Batting practice, ground balls. I'm ready to go. ”

- Luis Gonzalez

“ None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement. ”

- Ken Norton
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