“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
Charles Edward Montague
“"Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.”
John Updike
“According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.”
Mark Tobey
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.”
Robert Browning
“Scraping the bottom of the barrel”
Proverb
“We're not in the upper echelon by any means. We've got to scrape and claw for any victories we can get. I think our guys know we've got to play well. We don't have to play perfectly, but we need to play well to beat these guys.”
Steve Spurrier
“We scraped back and that was good to see. We are so young and we'll learn from this and from our mistakes.”
David Owens
