Top 100 Quotes About Itch
#2. 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
#3. Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
Michael Arrington
#4. 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
#5. Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.
Edward Abbey
#6. I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.
Tanith Lee
#7. When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Dieter Dengler
#8. 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
#9. Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.
Lauren Beukes
#10. 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
#11. Don't itch the itch feel the itch
E.M.
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Juvenal
#17. One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Scott Reed
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch.
Emma Straub
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
Don Van Vliet
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Susan Sontag
#28. 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
#29. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Damn you, you made up lame excuses and practically patted me on the head. And tonight, you've got an itch and you're annoyed that I wasn't here to scratch it.
Nora Roberts
#33. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
#34. A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.
Josef Pieper
#36. Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which / Shall fall awake when cures and their itch / Raise up this red-eyed earth?
Dylan Thomas
#38. Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.
Dara McGrath
#39. Rain on roof outside window, gray light, deep covers and warm blankets. Rain and nip of autumn in air; nostalgia, itch to work better and bigger. That crisp edge of autumn.
Sylvia Plath
#40. You could scratch the itch of whatever sin you wanted: glory holes, gang bangs, girls on girls on guys. There were rooms for fetishes, and pits for fucking, and every tie-up, chain-down, in-the-air you could ask for. Especially
J.R. Ward
#41. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
Eric S. Raymond
#42. Gossip is so dangerous, because it makes you feel like you told the truth. And you did. Just not to the person involved. It scratches that itch, that impulse to tell the truth, but it has no power to transform, and it destroys trust. When
Shauna Niequist
#43. Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
Romulus Linney
#44. Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.
Mordecai Richler
#45. A story without an ending is an unbearable itch to the reader.
K.J. Charles
#46. I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion - or an itch.
Hisaye Yamamoto
#47. They don't want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we're the same. They know what it's like to have an itch. They can imagine what it's like to be a mother. This brief encounter has changed them. Now they can identify with an octopus. They
Sy Montgomery
#48. If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire
Nagarjun
#51. Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
Markus Zusak
#53. It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.
Lawrence Block
#55. Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.
Frank Iero
#56. Most women have only to lay eyes on you to want to be doing something for you so badly they can't stand it ... You're always so timid and yet you're funny ... Sometimes you get terribly lonesome and depressed, but that only makes a woman's heart itch all the more for you.
Osamu Dazai
#57. I'm really into pandas right now. They're really scratching an itch for me. They're so goddamn cute.
Nick Kroll
#58. My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.
Roseanne Barr
#59. My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
Katharine McPhee
#60. My first wife was like the rash you get from poison ivy. I couldn't stand her, but I couldn't keep my hands off her. She was an itch I scratched until I bled
and then I scratched it some more!
Joe Hill
#61. I never really understood what a three-year itch meant because I never felt it before. Before Johnny, my relationships had a four-month expiration date.
Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla
#62. She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.
Alyson Noel
#63. The itch of scribbling.
Juvenal
#64. Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay ... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it ... You're making my scales itch.
Saphira, from Eragon
Christopher Paolini
#65. So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.
Denzel Washington
#66. I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.
Lawrence Taylor
#67. Who's there?"
"The scratcher of your itch," he said.
She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. "Was that supposed to be romantic?
Jill Shalvis
#68. The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
Henry Wotton
#69. Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.
Tyler, The Creator
#70. The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
Steven Wright
#71. She was like a nagging itch, repellent and at the same time tempting.
Stieg Larsson
#72. I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.
Jeff Jordan
#73. My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Iris Apfel
#74. I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ...
Laetitia Pilkington
#75. He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.
Francois Rabelais
#76. The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
Thomas Merton
#77. My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.
B.G. Bowers
#78. I just want to do things that scratch an itch for me. That itch is often something that feels wrong. It's wrong because it breaks convention or is unexpected or at times uncomfortable. I like that feeling.
Stephen Colbert
#79. Death is always sudden," Glerk said. His eyes had begun to itch. "Even when it isn't.
Kelly Barnhill
#80. The universe has an itch, and I have been called upon to scratch it.
James Halat
#81. Watching you at work, I was reminded of the young lady of Natchez, whose clothes were all tatters and patches. In alluding to which, she would say, Well, Ah itch, and wherever ah itches, Ah scratches.
P.G. Wodehouse
#82. I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
Gregory Maguire
#83. I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves ... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.
Philip Johnson
#84. In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
Ram Dass
#85. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
Mark Twain
#86. I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they've got a wonderful long-term plan.
Tim Berners-Lee
#87. Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
Salman Rushdie
#88. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.
J.M. Coetzee
#89. I don't like to hear woman argue ... it makes my balls itch.
Kevin Hart
#90. Have you ever had an itch so awful that you must scratch it or die? And yet you can't?"
His lips twitched. "Yes. Usually in one's army boot, while standing in knee-deep water in a trench. While people are shooting. That absolutely guarantees an unreachable itch.
Lisa Kleypas
#91. As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present.
Greg Iles
#92. It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.
Kit Williamson
#93. Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
Patricia Hampl
#94. Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me - both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore -
Penny Reid
#95. Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
Diane Ackerman
#96. Such a social-media environment; it is merely the most recent and most efficient way that humans have found to scratch a prehistoric itch. The compelling nature of social media, then, can be traced back in part to the evolution of the social brain, as
Tom Standage
#97. As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave ... an itch, a stray memory from childhood, the distant sound of a barking dog, or something left over from the lunch that is found caught between the teeth.
David Brin
#98. Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
Emma Donoghue
#99. Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that - because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.
Jerry Spinelli
#100. For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
Ian Fleming
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