Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
source: Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Tao?”, p.89, New World Library

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
source: "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.
topic: Funny, Television, Literature, Scraping
topic: Song, Love Is, Blood, Strain, Explain Yourself
The more you walk with God, the harder it is to scrape your knee
source: Song: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, 2012
topic: Knees, Walking With God, Walks, Scraping
source: Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1177, Simon and Schuster
Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
source: Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.39, Penguin
topic: Stars, Night, Thinking, Late Night, 5th Wave
topic: Mother, Brother, Children, Chances In Life, Scraping
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
topic: Believe, People, Flying, Flying Saucers, Scraping
source: Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
topic: Girl, Dream, Eyebrows, Cannolis, Chocolate Chip Cookies
source: Source: www.thefreethinktank.com
source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.51, Macmillan
topic: Journey, Thinking, Vocabulary, Range Of Emotions, Scraping
topic: Dream, Shadow, Going Away, Scraping
source: Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.838, Harlequin
source: Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.54, Atlantic Monthly Press
source: Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.167, Scholastic Inc.
topic: Wrinkles, Elderly, People, District 12, Scraping
topic: Believe, Stuff, Diagnosis, Prescriptions, Scraping
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
topic: Song, Bottom Of The Barrel, Trying, Scraping
topic: Mean, Arguing, Tease, Antagonism, Scraping
topic: Mean, Thinking, Starting Over, Starting Over Again, Scraping
topic: Running, Thinking, Suffering, Fear Of Success, Scraping
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
topic: Change, Ships, Destruction, Barnacles, Scraping
source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster
topic: Writing, Men, Style, Scraping, Useful Thoughts
topic: Fall, Guitar, Pockets, Shattering, Scraping
source: Source: thequietus.com
topic: Mean, Bottom Of The Barrel, Entertainment, Scraping, Lowest Common Denominator
topic: Mother, Rights, Parent, Detrimental, Single Parent
topic: Mean, People, Good Man, Abbreviations, Servility
topic: Humility, Boys, People, Deodorant, Food Industry
topic: Intelligent, Cells, Library, Scraping
source: William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社
topic: Horse, Cat, Science, Bowels, String Quartets
topic: Music, Fighting, Hands, Percussion, Scraping
topic: Determination, Race, People, Scraping