Quotes About Having An Itch

#1. The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

#2. It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

Don Van Vliet

#3. One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Scott Reed

#4. Recently, the very thought of going to the dance with Grady made Violet's skin itch, as if she might be breaking out in hives-or more likely a bad case of second thoughts.

Kimberly Derting

#5. Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

Mark Davis

#6. The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

John Dryden

#7. Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch.

Emma Straub

#8. My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave.

Temple Grandin

#9. If crisis is the first voice pushing all things, then habitualisation is its echo: the second voice, a whisper, the itch that keeps things moving when they do not really want to, or do not really have to.

John Zande

#10. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Juvenal

#11. She swallowed, hard. Her wounds were starting to itch on top of the constant, drug-dulled aching. She hoped that her first act as queen wouldn't be passing out.

Marissa Meyer

#12. That, too, is an itch - the desire to see him, to kiss him again, to let him put his fingers in my hair - is a monstrous, constant, crawling feeling in my blood and bones.
It's worse than a disease. It's a poison.
And I like it.

Lauren Oliver

#13. In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Susan Sontag

#14. There is a book waiting for him upon the library table; his eyes fancy they still follow its lines of type, his head still runs upon its argument, his fingers itch to take it up again.

Susanna Clarke

#15. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner

#16. When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When

Eula Biss

#17. If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no!

Deb E. Howell

#18. It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.

Andrew Bogut

#19. People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.

Chelsea Handler

#20. Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Don't itch the itch feel the itch

E.M.

#23. Six happy years together
Such a perfect matching
You're entering the 7 year itch zone
This is no time for scratching

John Walter Bratton

#24. Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.

Lauren Beukes

#25. What I have sought in love is a reprieve from the itch of consciousness -- to transcend myself and my human imperfections -- but this has yet to happen.

Melissa Broder

#26. When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

Dieter Dengler

#27. I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.

Tanith Lee

#28. Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

Edward Abbey

#29. The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

Charles Bukowski

#30. Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Michael Arrington

#31. The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

Tracy Thompson

#32. I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

Christopher Meloni