#dregs

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? ↗

— William Gaddis

#around #artist #done #dregs #expect

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. ↗

— Damon Hill

#career #dregs #last #last year #lifetime

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. ↗

— Voltaire

#dregs #excellent #froth #middle #top

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#dregs #drink #hope #i #life

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best work #dregs #exhaustion #god #i

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas