Best Scraping Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.”

Thinking Mind Mean Sometimes Hard Done Problem Situation Clear Plans Strategy Starting Solve Again And Again Starting Over Whatever It Takes Scraping Starting Over Again

Author:Richard Schmid

“History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.”

People Has Beens Nations Effort Race Teach History Mankind Glory Determination African American Honour Cowardice American History Manly Scraping

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”

Government Fighting Given Duty Hair Tired Sake Clubs Stupidity Hypocrisy Bad Things Gross Splitting Scraping

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”

People Mind Mean Poor Rich Masters Crowds Complaining Manners Good Man Decline Decay Employers Civility Good Manners Servility Scraping Abbreviations

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.”

Spiritual Teacher Buddhism Development Enlightenment Buddhist Mutual Etiquette Phony Spiritual Development Mutual Respect Counterproductive Scraping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.”

“I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.”

Needs Enjoy Sound Cooking Smell Pot Bubbles Involvement Stirring Scraping

Author:Marcella Hazan

“I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.”

Believe Stuff Conditions Offers Don't Believe Diagnosis Prescriptions Scraping

Author:Tim Gunn

“I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.”

Trying Together Song Felt Bottom Barrels Scraping Bottom Of The Barrel

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.”

Thinking Persons Running Suffering Heard Bottom Barrels Fear Of Success Scraping

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?”

Change Destruction Ships Exaggeration Scraping Barnacles

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.”

“My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.”

Moments Fall Guitar My Favorite Pockets Melody Bass Buzz Shattering Scraping

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.”

Mean Common Bottom Entertainment Lowest Public Service Barrels Common Denominator Broadcasters Lowest Common Denominator Scraping Bottom Of The Barrel

Author:Jonathan Meades

“Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.”

Trying Seems Mother Parent Rights Effects Fine Equal Raises Surface Womens Rights Equal Rights Ripple Detrimental Single Parent Ripple Effect Scraping

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.”

I Can School Bits Careers Singing Notes Notion Piano Grades Abandoned Scraping

Author:Stephen Curry

“Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.”

Wells Made Ideas Facts Lasts Deals Fiction Metaphor Bones Myth Symbols Journalism Prose Scraping

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.”

Funny Literature Television Materials Hunger Hungry Barrels Scraping

Author:Gore Vidal

“People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.”

People May Together Reading Knowing Seeing One Thing Connections Curious Dirt Mistaken Notebook Rubbish Gravestone Scraping

Author:Alice Munro

“There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.”

Years Bits Streets Clothes Heavy Nine Cop Stamps Riot Contagious Jerusalem Nine Years Sidewalk Scraping

Author:Warren Ellis

“I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can Helping Hands Memories Mistake Quiet Guilt Good Things Beast Help Me Guts Closest Galaxy Transfers Dump Ribs Stay With Me Warp Quiet Place Scraping

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.”

“I only have have one question, scraping the inside of me. Answer it, and I will stumble back into her shadow, shut my mouth, never ask again. I've tried to ignore it, but it won't go away. It haunts my dreams, chases me through every single day, and I don't have the strength to turn around, face it down. So please tell me and I swear I'll never ask again. It's in your power to make it go away, and all you have to do is tell me why you love her more.”

Dream Faces Turns Asks Answers Please Mouths Shadow Going Away Swear Scraping

Book:Tricks

Source: Tricks

“Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?” A nod. “Me pretty.” “Yes, you are.” Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. “Beautiful.”

Thinking Firsts Beautiful Girl Voice Boys Cat Skins Noise Glances Legion Scraping

Book:Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure

Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure

“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.”

People Want Persons Different Dies Asks Secret Achievement Survival Majority Rounds Longevity Desirable Belly Elderly Wrinkles Envied Scraping District 12

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.”

Ifs Mean Attraction Expected Arguing Indication Tease Antagonism Scraping

Author:Suzanne Weyn

“I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”

Stills Felt Church Cutting Rain Window Branches Stillness Restless Pouring Restlessness Gutters Scraping

Book:I Capture The Castle

Source: I Capture The Castle

“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.”

Thinking Long Hard Mother Felt Grief Missing Rivers Stomach Hook Ache Scraping Dredging

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.”

Years Different Past Laughing Forgotten Miscellaneous Ribs Giggle Scraping

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.”

“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”

Men Mind Book Moments Rooms Planets Silent Intellect Shaking Artifacts Perishing Leftovers Scraping Potpourri

Book:I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

“You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought”

Want Giving Messages Killing Throat Want Me Jace Blades You Want Me Scraping

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.”

Cat Violin Scraping

Book:What Is Tao?

Source: What Is Tao?

“Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Night Stars Sky Late Hearing Novelists Night Sky Tents Late Night Scraping 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.”

“I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.”

Wanted Song Found Materials Taste Edges Performing Valentine Valentine's Day Good Taste Scraping

Author:Tom Rush

“I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.”

People Knows Mother Know How Beaten Scraping Pinching

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.”

Film Mere Makers Scraping

Author:Wole Soyinka

“My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

Giving Children Stills Hard Whole Mother Work Chance Brother Whole Life Cooks My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Maids Only Child Babysitter Scraping Chances In Life

Author:Julian Castro

“I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.”

Years Able Acting Support Six Years Ago Scraping

Author:Edie Falco

“People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.”

People Believe Bottom Flying Flying Saucers Scraping

Author:Nigel Kneale

“The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee”

Walks Harder Knees Rapper Walking With God Scraping

Author:Big K.R.I.T.

“We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God”

Answers Tears Sight Hearing Torn Strain Scraping

Author:Nicholas Wolterstorff

“I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.”

People Bits Boys Teach Humility Industry Importance Restaurants Bus Plates Mexican Beans Arizona Food Industry Scraping Deodorant

Author:Wentworth Miller

“The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.”

Might Politics Politician Intelligent Species Library Secure Cells Efficient Galaxy Scraping

Author:George R. R. Martin

“...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.”

Knows Politics President Reporters President Bush Barrels Quoting Scraping Sids

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.”

Way May Said Different Science Term Cat Horse Description Strings Application Tails Violin Quartets Simultaneous Bowels Scraping String Quartets

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.”

Hard Sound Sky Solitude Winter Ice Emptiness Hops Rooted Hollow January Stalking Syllables Scraping

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.”

Men Stills Earth Faces Cities Fields Wind Solitude Mountain Garden Rivers Window Mere Affair Giants Crush Rough Crash Nevertheless Our Thoughts Dwarfs Forsaken Orchard Monstrosity Scraping

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.”

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