Scrap Quotes - Page 6

• [On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Husband, Book

  Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• 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.

  Paul McCartney

  Firsts, Impossible, Unemployed

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• Albom with Trent Willmon is the first project that I haven't had to scrap money together for. The is the first time I've used any outside songs at all; until now it's only been stuff that I've written. This is also the first album of mine that's had any co-writes on it, as well. It's a big step, coming off of anything we've ever done before.

  Curtis Grimes

  Song, Writing, Together

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• As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

  Louis Aragon

  Reality, Fire, Appearance

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Narcissus, Metals

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either

  Hilton Als

  Book, Artist, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Three, Truck, Tractors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.

  Z'EV

  Cutting, Play, Yards

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Trying, Avant Garde, Littles

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.

  Susan Mallery

  Heart, Fighting, Winning

  Susan Mallery (2010). “Finding Perfect”, p.323, HQN Books

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• In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Airports, Guy, Matter

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

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

  J. M. Coetzee

  Why Not, Fiction, Way

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Long, Expansion

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• Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Conversation, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wall, Writing, Paper

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

  E. O. Wilson

  Struggle, Diversity, Arguing

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Rights, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

  Clint Catalyst

  Wall, Flower, Book

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• I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.

  Robert Jensen

  Dark, Nihilism, Sides

  Robert Jensen (2004). “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity”, p.39, City Lights Books

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