(34 quotes found)
“"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
“Scraping the bottom of the barrel”
Proverb
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.”
Robert Browning
“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
“Then, this guy cuts me off in the rain and I put the bike down, cut up my jeans, scraped up the bike and rode home.”
Chris Dishman
“We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadn't done of late. But the first few minutes of the second half – they were just too much.”
Beth Burns
“One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”
David F. Houston
“I laughed and I scraped it off. Then I thought that would be a great idea, to get somebody to go to everybody's house and write 'Go Carl Edwards, No. 99.'”
Carl Edwards
“We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.”
Deanna Lassegard
