Scratches quotes
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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
-- Albie Sachs -
I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.
-- Amber Rose -
One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.
-- Aminu Kano -
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I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
-- Andrea Zittel -
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
-- Anne Lamott -
Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
-- Austen Chamberlain -
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
-- Bear Grylls -
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
-- Beau Mirchoff -
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
-- Ben Jonson -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.
-- Carl Sagan -
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It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!
-- Carrie Vaughn -
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
-- Carson Kressley -
I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.
-- Christine Gregoire -
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
-- Christopher Meloni -
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If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?†Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?
-- Dan Miller -
I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.
-- Danilo Kis -
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
-- David E. Kelley -
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
-- David Geffen -
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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
-- Dennis Green -
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
-- Diego Luna -
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
-- Dieter Dengler -
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
-- Dorothy Parker -
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
-- Dorothy Parker -
Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.
-- Drake Doremus -
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
-- Earl Long -
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
-- Elias Canetti -
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Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.
-- Eoin Colfer -
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
-- Eric Bana -
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.
-- Eric Stoltz -
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
-- Ernest Bramah -
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Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
-- Eve Merriam -
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
-- Felix Dennis -
The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
-- Gail Caldwell -
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Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.
-- Gail Carriger -
Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space
-- Gavin DeGraw -
My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!
-- Graham Chapman -
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I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
-- Hal Linden -
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
-- Heath Ledger -
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.
-- Henri Langlois -
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
-- Ina Garten -
You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.
-- Jack Dorsey -
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
-- James Dyson -
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
-- James Huneker -
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
-- Janet Malcolm -
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
-- Jeremy Renner -
It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.
-- John Cleese -
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You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
-- John Cullum -
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
-- John Ruskin -
It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.
-- John Seely Brown -
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
-- Jose Saramago -
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Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
-- Julian Tuwim -
I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
-- Kevin Kelly -
When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.
-- Kid Koala -
I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.
-- Kinky Friedman -
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It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love -- I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.
-- Lauren Conrad -
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
-- Laurie Metcalf -
Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.
-- Lea Michele -
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
-- Leif Garrett -
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We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.
-- Li Ka-shing -
If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.
-- Marisa Miller -
Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
-- Mary McCarthy -
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If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
-- Meg Greenfield -
No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.
-- Michael Grant -
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
-- Michael Arrington -
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.
-- Michael Dolan -
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Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.
-- Michael Ghiselin -
No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.
-- Michael Ghiselin -
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
-- Michael Nyman -
Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy
-- Michael Ondaatje -
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Scratch my back with a hack saw!
-- Mike Lange -
With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.
-- Mitchel Resnick -
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.
-- Nadia Giosia -
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
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He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
-- Nick Hornby -
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
-- Nicolas Cage -
I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
-- Norton Juster -
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
-- Ogden Nash -
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I approach every role from scratch.
-- Paul Dano -
I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.
-- Paul Westerberg -
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
-- Pema Chodron -
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
-- Peter Greenaway -
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I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
-- Peter Zumthor -
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...
-- Phyllis McGinley -
Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
-- Ramakrishna -
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
-- Randolph Bourne -
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
-- Rene Redzepi -
Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.
-- Richard Branson -
I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
-- Richard Hammond -
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After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
-- Rita Rudner -
The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.
-- Robert Hunter -
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
-- Ruby Dee -
