Top 27 Scrabbling Quotes

#1. For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.

B.P. Gregory

Scrabbling Quotes #332436
#2. If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Kate Atkinson

Scrabbling Quotes #1856565
#3. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Jeff VanderMeer

Scrabbling Quotes #1783298
#4. It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

Lauren Oliver

Scrabbling Quotes #1747030
#5. When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?

Sergei Lukyanenko

Scrabbling Quotes #1654157
#6. We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of scrabbling for public land and damn well getting them by any means.

John Steinbeck

Scrabbling Quotes #1599634
#7. It was the enormity of war, she thought, it left you scrabbling for ways to think about it. Bridget

Kate Atkinson

Scrabbling Quotes #1588728
#8. It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

Robyn

Scrabbling Quotes #1337542
#9. In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell if they were having a good time or trying to kill each other.

Tom Perrotta

Scrabbling Quotes #1032952
#10. Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Margaret Atwood

Scrabbling Quotes #972927
#11. When you fall in love, your heart will pound so much you won't be able to throw a mouse let alone a cow pat.
I don't think I could throw a mouse now. I dislike the idea of scrabbling little feet in my palm, unless they are yours, of course.

Eloisa James

Scrabbling Quotes #865371
#12. It was as easy for him to quit Bloomsbury for the Chilterns as for a cat to jump from a hard chair to a soft. Now after a little scrabbling and exploration he was curled up in the green lap and purring over the landscape.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Scrabbling Quotes #840639
#13. I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Nina Bawden

Scrabbling Quotes #773979
#14. I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Scrabbling Quotes #748584
#15. Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

Jane Rogers

Scrabbling Quotes #729284
#16. Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

Marya Hornbacher

Scrabbling Quotes #412261
#17. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Tom Hollander

Scrabbling Quotes #12983
#18. I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Laurence Fox

Scrabbling Quotes #994549
#19. Most things are imaginary, when you think about it. Sometimes I think I'm imaginary.

Kiersten White

Scrabbling Quotes #1657500
#20. Don't judge. That was a joke. How could I not? Everyone judged whether we admitted to it or not, usually saving the harshest criticisms for ourselves.

Donna Augustine

Scrabbling Quotes #1112641
#21. My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this.

Meghan Trainor

Scrabbling Quotes #829763
#22. Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

Francis De Sales

Scrabbling Quotes #612412
#23. I am black. What are you going to do about it?

Adrian Piper

Scrabbling Quotes #598688
#24. Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.

Bernie Glassman

Scrabbling Quotes #279248
#25. The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Oscar Wilde

Scrabbling Quotes #110133
#26. Hope Lives Here. Even Here.

Cynthia Ruchti

Scrabbling Quotes #90929
#27. In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Trent Reznor

Scrabbling Quotes #40695

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