Quotes About Salvage

But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

SALVAGE To leave behind An outline, which then Becomes form. Held up, It is called beauty For the ability to contain What we did not know We wanted to know.

ha pedig meg lehet menteni, akkor még jobban elcseszni is lehet.

In a breaker's yard you discover anything can have a new life, be reborn as part of a car or railway carriage, or a shovel blade. You take that older life and you link it to a stranger.

Ist die Wurzel einmal befallen, ist der Baum nicht mehr zu retten«, sagte der Gärtner.

Certainly that thought did not enter into McClellan's calculations. He continued thinking only in terms of how much he might salvage from defeat.

The reality of the human condition is such that, according to Porter (and I agree), we must "salvage our fragments of happiness" out of life's inevitable sufferings.

the purpose of the legend was to foster a heroic image of secession and the war so that the Confederates would have salvaged at least their honor from the all-encompassing defeat.

I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

You have lost control and will do whatever you can to salvage your position. This is why you are so calm in the face of all that's happened today.

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

But even the finest recipe isn't going to salvage a meal that begins with spoiled ingredients. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression "garbage in, garbage out.

The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after

So I thought maybe I could save just some of it. Maybe, even if we weren't going to be together, we could still . . ." Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we could still, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged.

The first thing they need is a fuel that doesn't pollute. The oil companies are insisting that everyone burn chemical-fire fuels that smoke and get soot and poison gases into the atmosphere. Until they have and are using a better energy source, it's useless to do anything else to salvage the planet.

Life is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an investment to be used in the world.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

She's in remarkably good shape for sitting underwater for almost fifty years

but the sea yielded only a few planks broken off from Santiago's hull.

From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.