#scrap

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

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #before #book #doing #each

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. ↗

— John Keegan

#crashing #glorious #i #i think #into

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clock #digital #every #every time #hands

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. ↗

— Randy West

#before #being #commercial #during #ear

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

#enough #finished #good #i #ideas