Words matter. These are the best Scrape Quotes from famous people such as David F. Houston, Harlan Coben, Jack Monroe, Gunther Schuller, Kadeena Cox, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, ‘It’s gonna sell.’ I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before ‘Tell No One.’ I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own putrid barrels of opinion to attack this ‘terrifying’ otherness.
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
The majority of people scrape their less dense hair back into a bobble or a braid, whereas I actually have massive challenges getting my hair into a helmet. Going into Rio, trying to get my ‘fro into a helmet was a big issue.
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don’t know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
I’ve driven cars worth $6 million and now I’m not as nervous because I do it a lot, but I have to keep my wits about me because if I touch anything or scrape one rim, anything could go wrong.
Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
I’ll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
I was in a struggling team in League One and I’ve seen how tough it is when you are trying to scrape out points at the bottom of the league.
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.
You can’t make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
So now I’m left with cigarettes, and I’m trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I’ll be done.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn’t have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn’t have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn’t in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career – neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
