A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
quote by Charles Edward Montague
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Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
I guess its somethin in my brain
I need whiskey to ease the pain
But its early in the mornin
And Im feelin bad again
But if you ever loved me
Youll go easy on me now
Fix me up a cup of coffee
And in a while Ill come around
I think I spent the dog-food money
But hell love me just the same
And if you really love me baby
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain
Its a shame when morning hurts
Ive seen bad and Ive seen worse
Its the nature of my bein
I took some money from your purse
Nthat frenchman loves to party
And I know hes not to blame
But the way youre lookin at me baby
I just cant help but feel the shame
I think I spent the dog-food money
But hell love me just the same
And if you really love me baby
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain
And if you really love me baby
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain
song performed by by Ween
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So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
quote by Diane Lane
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Progress (a concrete jungle)
Cloudy green
Lush Forest, made
of the stuff
dreams are made of,
a jungle of
culture and
heritage-
now a
city.
Dull grey
buildings, wailing
cries of bustling
cars in the
distance.
Skyscrapers, Skyscrapers
scrape
the
sky.
and the ever-
progressing society
labels it a
Jungle. All
these trucks
and bulldozers,
all part of
the immutable
progression of
Time,
of the long
and dreary
process we call
Development.
And
Skyscrapers, Skyscrapers
they
scrape
the
sky.
poem by Ballerina With Fins
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He is your friend who gets you out of a scrape.
The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape.
He is a proud Tod that will not scrape his own Hole.
It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
quote by James Young
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It is a silly hen that canna scrape for ae bird.
He's a proud fox that winna scrape his ain hole.
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
quote by Sam Shepard
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I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
quote by Michael Hutchence
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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
quote by Bryan Adams
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
quote by Isaac Barrow
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
quote by David F. Houston
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Our sliding existence
I think it is the shadow of a sound
It seems to be so real
I'm in the prison of my mind
I think I hear the rude rain-drops
Shrieking on the asphalt,
It seems to be only the eaves drip
Or maybe the clatter of hoof-clipped stones
And scrape of gravel down.
I saw a light, I think it is a thunder light
It's seems to be only an electrical explosion
I open the window and I see everything unclear outside
I think it is the smoke from a burning building
It seems to be only fog in the air
I think you hair smells like imperial lily flowers
It seems that the lily blooms
So beautifully in the cup when steeped
In front of our window
I'm in the prison of my mind
In our sliding existence
poem by Marieta Maglas
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If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.