Scrap Quotations

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.

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?

I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper.

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.

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

We?re just trying to scrap out a win every time out. In this league there?s Hartford and then there?s the rest.

We're getting real good pitching and we're starting to be able to execute and scrap a few runs out. We're finding ways to score runs, sometimes, when we really need them.

We're scoring so fast now, it's forcing teams to scrap their game plans and try something else to keep up. Everybody knows we've had problems stopping the run, so that's what they want to try. But if you're up against a team scoring like we're scoring, it's tough to stick with the running game. They're forcing teams to change what they want to do. That's never bad.

We have a starting point. We've come this far, we shouldn't scrap it.

We didn't throw it long, but we got things done. We really got to fight and scrap and be a real workman team to make things successful.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Now why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles, and why don't we have those resources readily available to us?

I don't think anything has changed. We are still going to fight and scrap for everything.

If it decides to scrap the policy, I think investors will see that as a signal to buy stocks. But if the BOJ decides to postpone ending the policy until its next meeting in April ... there will be disappointment.

He got into a nice scrap with their captain. Sometimes when you are squeezing a little bit, physicality is great.

What we had on site was over 120 unlicensed cars and several piles of scrap metal outdoors on the property,

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

Good hockey game in the sense that there was good physical play in it and to see a good scrap or two is pretty exciting. Nobody left after the first one, did they?

He was playing great and I just had to scrap my way back into it, ... I have no idea how I did it.

I talked to the kids yesterday and said we should have one of the best shooting teams in East Texas. And we haven't been. We've been finding other ways to scrap up wins. We have good shooters, and I hope today will kind of break that ice for us.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

I think the problems are to be worked out themselves in the dressing room. And we will do that. It's a great bunch of lads - plenty of ability in there, plenty of talent - we'll kick, scrap and fight our way out of this.

I think we sound different from a lot of stuff on the radio. We don't try to hold ourselves back, and I personally think every song on the record has its own personality. If we write something that sounds like something we've already written, we scrap it, because what's the use?

I think it validates what we're trying to do. We've been so close for so long that they understand that we can play these teams as long as we scrap and fight like we did tonight.

I suppose it's nice to show I'm not on the scrap heap just yet. I've said it all along I know I haven't played my last Test match.

Our kids aren't going to back down from anybody. They'll come out fighting, ready to play. We'll scrap and get on the floor for loose balls. We're going to guard you. If you beat us, you played a pretty good game.

Our luck? You noticed anything in particular about our luck these past few days? Any kind of pattern? You depend on luck, end up on the drift, no fuel, no prospects, begging for alliance make-work and towed out to the scrap belt. Well, that ain't us. Not ever.

Some of the greatest teams that I've had the privilege of coaching have come into this building and really gotten drilled. For our little militia to come in here and fight and scrap and claw and do what they needed to do to stay into the game, I can't even begin to tell you how proud I am.

My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I've ever played in my life.

I was going through my scrap book and I couldn't do nothing but to cry because I had all kinds of pictures of her in there.

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.

We're always just trying to scrap back when we come here or we're getting blown out. Hopefully something new can happen on this last trip.

We came out the exact opposite way I thought we would and dug ourselves a hole early, but we were able to scrap back and got the job done. We got a lot of contributions from a lot of different people and have a team capable of making runs. A lot of it is sparked by our defense, and when we decide to guard people, we can be pretty good.

We found a way to scrap and win ugly. Two nights ago we were on fire, but tonight we had to earn some points. Our three seniors really stepped it up when we had an off night shooting.

We have a ton of respect for Steubenville Central. They play the game of football as hard as they can and you know they are going to scrap for 48 minutes.

We haven't made a decision to scrap the drug code but it's fair to say that the events over the last few days have shown that the integrity of the current system is in question and is clearly flawed.

We'll get back to work tomorrow and we'll understand that we'll have a team coming in that isn't worried about playing us. I don't think any team is going to come in concerned or afraid of playing us right now. We just have to find a way to scrap and claw out of this little hole ourselves.

We played a great defensive game against Detroit, a great defensive game against Oklahoma (New Orleans) and San Antonio, and we do the little things that it takes to win big games. Then we come back tonight and we just don't scrap enough. I don't know if that's youth. I don't know if it's a heart thing. I hope it's not a heart thing.

To top it off, the Bank is asking these countries to keep making non-refundable debt payments to the Bank instead of using the funds to fight poverty, HIV/AIDS, and now avian flu in Africa. We call on the US Executive Director and the World Bank's Board to do the right thing and scrap these delays when they meet on Thursday.

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

We call upon the Indian Ministry of Environment to scrap their decision to allow this ship to come to India.

We can't play like (we did), especially when you're losing a guy like Brian who brings so much to the table. You really have to scrap and claw for everything. Everybody had to step up and play a whole different level of energy, and we just didn't have it.

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

We thought if we could finish some possessions with shots and scrap to keep them off the boards, we could get back into the game. We put together some scores and stops and things started to snowball for us.

The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs.

We were fortunate tonight with all the walks and the hit batter. We had to scrap to get through it, but those are the games you like to win even though there were some things we could have done better.

We have a bunch of guys who basically have to decide if they want to be sort of the typical NBA player, which nowadays is more of an excuse-maker and a blamer and has his agent telling him how great he is. There's not a lot of realism in that. Or, do you want to fight and scrap and claw for wins? I'm confident that our guys will eventually get that message.

What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

We want to give them to people who want to live in them rather than sell them for scrap metal.

Born after sunset, dead by daybreak, his 11-hour scrap of existence was little more than a shuttle down fluorescent hallways, a tour of wards and laboratories.

Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it,

Berryville is so good. We had to scrap for everything we got tonight.

Every single scrap of information we get is important to us. ... Something's out there that we still need.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Doubles has always been a big focus of ours. We feel like if we can scrap up the doubles point somehow that we're going to be a really tough team to beat. It has been a real momentum boost for us in the last few matches.

Crafting has always offered a social element. But I've noticed that within the last four years, I'm hearing more about the all-night scrap parties, the retreats and the cruises. More people are exposed to it, and it's just more fun to do with other people.

especially in districts where representatives voted to scrap annual reviews and grant China permanent normal trade relations.

I've wanted to get our team to overachieve all year, even though we've been playing out of position with our backs against the wall, but they did that tonight as they continued to scrap and fight the whole game. Overall, it was a positive team builder for next year.

Some scrap metal dealers have become a channel for fencing stolen material.

Anything over two unlicensed vehicles, unusable machinery parts or scrap metal is considered a junkyard in an agricultural zone,

That's what we do. We fight and scrap and never give up.

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, 'This is not funny, like we haven't figured something out, scrap it.'

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

They were just serving the lights out of the ball. We had to scrap and fight for everything in that first game.

They make you fight and scrap for every yard you get.

There were four or five big ones in the Great Hall. I've never found one, and I'm afraid whoever had them donated them to the scrap metal drives during World War II. But, maybe one day I'll find them.

They prevent you from running your style of offense. We had to kind of scrap our main offense and just try to play basketball.

It was a scrap to get through it, but the finished product, we ended with a 'W. It wasn't particularly pretty.

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.

For me, it's just incentive for us to surprise some people.... We're going to have to scrap and fight and show up to the party ready to play.

For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental regulations and safety regulations you have to deal with. It cost a lot more to scrap a ship than the ship is worth in parts.

It's a lot of educated guesses. On the scrap side of this business, they are horse traders.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

The two had entered India from Bangladesh six months ago and disguised themselves as scrap dealers.

They were one of the most physical teams I've ever played against. It was a big scrap in there.

There still remains a big area that has a lot of overgrown vegetation, the fence is in disrepair and there are barrels and scrap metal and wood on the property.

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

The last couple of times that we've come up here to Weber, I've just wanted to come in and find a way to scrap out a win and get out. This is a tough place for us to play. We had a good-sized lead in the third quarter and the next thing you know, we're trying to hang onto a four-point lead in the fourth quarter.

I'm feeling good and I'll be ready tomorrow. I've got to scrap this one and forget about it.

I?m proud of the way our team continued to scrap and fight and battle ourselves back into the game.

I knew it was going to be a scrap for third place. It's unbelievable. I'm so happy to be here with such a successful Scottish team. To get two medals is quite incredible. I couldn't see her, but I could the crowd. I was using the noise for me, to go a bit faster.

I like him very much, ... He's a good guy, a fighter and a scrapper. He has to continue to fight and scrap and stay healthy.

I'm pretty good as long as my sword was handy, ... The punching was hard for me because I punch like a girl. I had to learn to look as if I'm physically really whacking the stunt man. But if a scrap broke out, I think you'd be pretty impressed by my skills.

If no one wants to use it, then scrap it.

I'm very happy with where we're at right now. We've found a way to scrap out a couple of close wins to start league play and the kids feel confident. We're not scaring people or blowing anyone out, we're just finding ways to win close games and if we can continue to do that, we'll have a chance.

In an environment where mine supply is broadly static, central bank sales effectively constrained and scrap supply declining, strong physical demand is genuinely important.

I like the pitches out here. You have to get yourself in and you have to scrap all the time for your runs, which I enjoy.

If USDA wants to improve its computer systems, I'm all for it, ... But they shouldn't try to pay for those upgrades by closing the FSA offices our farmers depend on. It never made sense to me that the way to save money was to force farmers and ranchers to drive farther or go online to get their questions answered. I had serious reservations about this plan, as did many members of Congress. I'm glad USDA listened to those concerns and has decided to scrap this plan.

In this day and age, there is no public official or government office that wants to get caught in the situation that, following a terrorists attack, it is found out that they didn't tell folks they were supposed to tell about it. So what we have is a flood of information. Every little scrap of into that suggests there might be a threat is put out there and I think that is a mistake.

I really like the scrap by our team tonight. They've been together for 500 games, and we've been together for two days.