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Tag Name "Scrapes" (9)

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People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
Sarah Hall
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His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.
Julia Quinn
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
Louisa May Alcott
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The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
Nicole Krauss
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
Oscar Wilde
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Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.
Walt Disney
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We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls
Kenneth Patchen
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People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.
Murasaki Shikibu