#scrap

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

#easily #get #left #lie #out

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child." So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#children #free #freedom #skyscrapers #time

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #cleverness #discovering #fuss #magical

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#bottom #got #i #myself #out

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#away #back #changed #come #every

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#because #believe #charity #greedily #hoard

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#desperately #hungry #material #now #scraping

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? ↗

— Vida Blue

#child #every #every man #i #i think

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. ↗

— Edie Falco

#about #acting #ago #alone #i