Unscraped Quotes & Sayings

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. — Danilo Kis

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. — Morrissey

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It — Chuck Klosterman

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls ... They seem to us to be very simple ... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days ... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait ... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch. — Isak Dinesen

... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. — Louisa May Alcott

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker. — Fritz Lang

So when do I meet the champ? — Chuck Wepner