Skarping Quotes & Sayings

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead. — Katherine L. Walker

Marriages maybe made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth. — Gloria Pitzer

in the month-by-month process of editorial criticism and censorship, Hardy never lost his fierce contempt for all forms of 'tampering with natural truth — Thomas Hardy

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. — Paul Reed Smith

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them. — John D. Voelker

life is too narrow to walk in but wide to run throw — Jack Daniels

I just love to bake chocolate cakes and anything unhealthy. It makes me very popular. — Helena Mattsson

Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts
haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard.
I remember when there were just worms out there
and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September
nights. — Richard Brautigan

You promised I could be there the first time! What if you two run past something reflective?"
"Alice-," Edward protested.
"It will only take a second!"
And with that, Alice darted from the room.
Edward sighed.
"What is she talking about?"
But Alice was already back, carrying the huge, gilt-framed mirror from Rosalie's room, which was nearly twice as tall as she was, and several times as wide.
"Edward gave me grief for not getting you to a mirror before the wedding," Alice said, pulling my attention away from her frightening lover. "I'm not going to be chewed out again. — Stephenie Meyer

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again. — Bob Schneider