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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.»
Author: Bryan Adams
| Keywords:
in trouble, pit, rude, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, the pit, The Police
«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.»
«They have been painting the barn red and white, chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests from the spotlights, scraping mildew from costumes and very gingerly, in the manner of city slickers, shooing snakes out of the yard.»
Author: Maureen Dowd
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
barn, chasing, costumes, gingerly, mildew, scraping, skunks, snakes, spotlight, spotlights, The SPOTLIGHT, yard
«I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.»
«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
circumstance, mom, rent, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, sharing, smothered, smothering, smothers, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, younger
«Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
barrel, desperately, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping
«Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out»
«The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
angle, angles, angling, contingencies, contingency, heartily, lawyer, qualification, qualifications, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, throws
«I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.»
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