Scrag Quotes & Sayings

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely. — Jamie Zawinski

i have been told many times by family, friends, colleagues and strangers that I, a black African Muslim lesbian, am not included in this vision; that my dreams are a reflection of my upbringing in a decadent, amoral Western society that has corrupted who I really am. But who am I, really? Am I allowed to speak for myself or must my desires form the battleground for causes I do not care about? My answer to that is simple: 'no one allows anyone anything.' By rejecting that notion you discover that only you can give yourself permission on how to lead your life, naysayers be damned. In the end something gives way. The earth doesn't move but something shifts. That shift is change and change is the layman's lingo for that elusive state that lovers, dreamers, prophets and politicians call 'freedom'. — Diriye Osman

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow. — Maurice Sendak

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic. — Alan Watts

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. — Jeanette Winterson

Today is much more an age of greed — Richard Rogers

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy. — Alec-Tweedie

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. — Meg Rosoff

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of. — Ted Hughes

It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing. — Randall Munroe

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. — Jerry B. Jenkins

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. — Janice Dickinson

here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine. — Lia Riley

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. — Carol Leifer

There's no such thing as a single parent. They've become dependent on other people in commercial transactions, such as their employers and child-care providers. A single mother may look like she's doing so much 'on her own,' but she has merely commercialized the things the father would (and should) have done. — Jennifer Roback Morse