Top 35 Scrap Quotes

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

With correction, and given the chance, ‘Terra Nova’ can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew ‘Terra Nova’ is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. ‘Terra Nova’ is the Hubble Telescope of television.

Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

I start with the outcome – increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost – and then execute toward that.

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

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.

States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they’ve wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It’s only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.

I think I have already 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?

I don’t care about what people might call my style. It’s just like when people call my music ‘jangly,’ ‘dream,’ ‘oceanside,’ whatever – I don’t care. I’m just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I’ll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It’s probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn’t affect my movement.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you’re thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

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.

When government programs aren’t working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems – sometimes without spending a penny.

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.

If I don’t feel it when I’m sitting there, if it doesn’t give me the feeling I got when I heard ‘Pony’ or ‘So Anxious’ or ‘In Those Jeans,’ I scrap it.

If the beat feels like it don’t make you move right, I scrap that and go to another track. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour to get one done.

When you’re stuck, and sure you’ve written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it – or you will never know if you can.

People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won’t immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it.

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.

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

I can’t imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it’s of no importance.

At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it’s been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

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.

I was 13 years old. I feel like I didn’t have a sense of artistry, and I didn’t have a sense of the music that I wanted to make, and every time I’d go into the studio, and I’d make my EP, a month later I’d scrap it and be like, ‘I hate every song. I don’t wanna do it.’ Because that’s how 13-year-olds are.

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

My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of – it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once ‘Hairspray’ happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.

I come from a family of scrap metal dealers, so becoming an actor seemed like a ridiculous thing to do, but I’d found the thing that gave me a kick, and I quickly became obsessed with it.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that’s when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don’t know what I’m talking about because the words are too much, and it’s overwhelming.