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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' -- Niger Innis
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers. -- Ryne Sandberg
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. -- Edward Young
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. -- Aleister Crowley
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. -- John Updike
If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have. -- Allegra Huston
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. -- Bob Dylan
All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. -- Howard Carter
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there! -- Ed Begley, Jr.
USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
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
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. -- Lucinda Williams
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps. -- Dennis Hastert
I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps from people's studios; like newspaper clippings, weird drawings and stuff they might not necessarily show as artists. -- Leo Fitzpatrick
After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that! -- Feist
In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled. -- Tristram Stuart
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. -- Patti Smith
Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much. -- Tom Douglas
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead. -- Joel Salatin
The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy. -- Alison Sweeney
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way. -- Charles Frazier
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system. -- Steven Hall
I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps. -- Curtis Stone
The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.' -- Tristram Stuart
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. -- Umberto Eco
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. -- Virginia Woolf
Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. -- Rumi
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases. -- Thomas Bernhard
Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time? -- Greg Behrendt
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. -- David Shields
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination. -- Subhash Kak
Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them. -- Terry Tempest Williams
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. -- Alice Munro
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -- William Shakespeare
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings. -- Sophocles
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life. -- Charles Bukowski
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. -- Anne Tyler
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers -- Ryne Sandberg
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade -- Jeaniene Frost
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. -- Carl Sandburg
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. -- Eric Ambler
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. -- Alan Rickman
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works. -- Donald Rumsfeld
And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. -- Ally Condie
Enough scraps and rocks and countries are conveniently distributed across the face of the earth so that the sun still always shines on something British -- Pamela Marsh
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. -- David Nicholls
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response. -- Nicholas Delbanco
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. -- Julia Alvarez
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps. -- Bill Moyers
I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,' Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew. -- Carl Sargent
The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals. -- William Blum
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them. -- Jessica Day George
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures "? it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. -- Marshall McLuhan
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content. -- Robertson Davies
Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip. -- Robert Ludlum
I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse. -- Isaac Marion
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions." -- Henry David Thoreau
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. -- Eckhart Tolle
Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones. -- Peter Thiel
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
Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal. -- John Patrick Hickey
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. -- Umberto Eco
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul -- August Strindberg
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore. -- Amy Tan
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? -- John McCain
I think I have 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
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
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Positive attitude enables you to go with passion and see possibility in every challenging circumstance. It was by that, that great achievers picked up metal scraps on the floor and saw machines built from it. -- Israelmore Ayivor

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