Top 100 Quotes About Scratch
#1. Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
Alanis Morissette
#2. I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.
David Leslie
#3. I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
Beth Orton
#4. I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
Grandmaster Flash
#5. US tourists caught carving names into Rome's Colosseum Two California women break away from tour group to scratch their initials into ancient amphitheatre, where defacing walls is strictly forbidden
Anonymous
#7. And now here he was, completely alone. He found this situation both euphoric (he could scratch himself and no one was looking; no one was judging him--no one!) and unsettling. (What if he choked?)
Cynthia Hand
#8. When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.
Dan Ariely
#9. 'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
John De Mol Jr.
#10. I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.
Cassandra Clare
#11. The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Andre Gide
#12. Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.
Louise Erdrich
#13. I gave the dog a last scratch and he smiled and wagged his heavy tail. He didn't look like a dog that stole and ate children. He looked like a dog that might steal chocolate-covered Easter eggs.
Richard Bradford
#14. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
#15. Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.
Elvis Presley
#16. Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.
Lea Michele
#17. We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
Clive Thompson
#18. 90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
George Washington
#19. I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
Kevin Kelly
#20. If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
Philippe Falardeau
#21. Andie was a physical girl, and that's not code for 'It's all about the sex'. She was a hugger, a toucher, she was prone to running her fingers through my hair or down my back in a friendly scratch. She got reassurance and comfort from touching. And yes, fine, she also liked sex.
Gillian Flynn
#22. Because you, my darling, are like poison ivy to me. Even though I know that it will only make things worse, I can't help but scratch."
"Oh, the compliments." She smiled sadly. "You are as debonair as always.
J.R. Ward
#23. An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
William James
#24. Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
Cormac McCarthy
#25. The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
Perry Brass
#26. My Mexican specialty is chilaquiles. I make tortillas from scratch, then add garlic, onions, eggs, chopped-up carrots and peppers, Jack cheese, and salsa.
Sara Ramirez
#27. No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.
Peter Farb
#28. 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
#29. I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#30. I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't ... up to scratch
Andrea K. Host
#31. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben
#32. 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
#33. It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.
Guido Van Rossum
#34. It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.
John Cleese
#35. What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'
Gina Rodriguez
#36. My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#37. Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
Sandra Lee
#38. Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#39. These kids today. Back then, we couldn't afford photosynthesis. We had to build oxygen from scratch with an atom smasher.
Tim Hensley
#40. He reached down to scratch her on the head. "You're a cute little thing. Fast too. Is that really your name? Precious?" After a couple of scratches between her ears the dog rolled over on her back on the grass, asking for more.
Rich Amooi
#41. Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.
Michael Moss
#42. When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
Beau Mirchoff
#43. Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.
W.B.Yeats
#44. God loves some people more. Those people end up rich. He loves some people a little less, and those people stay poor. You take a pin and scratch off one of these colored circles, and underneath you'll find your gift and your fortune.
Orhan Pamuk
#45. You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf's ears.
Robin Hobb
#47. I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
Abraham Lincoln
#48. A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.
Emo Philips
#49. When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
Peter Diamandis
#50. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips
#51. We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.
Tracy Byrd
#52. We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on.
Steven Erikson
#53. I'm pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I'll purr at you, but I'll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you'd ignored me.
Tad Williams
#54. I have no problem with starting from scratch.
Leif Garrett
#55. Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt.
Tim Tharp
#56. Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. 'Don't come too close if you know what's good for you, these nits are on steroids.
Sharon Sant
#57. If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
Nick Clegg
#58. Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire.
Gerard De Marigny
#59. Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it - I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Nalini Singh
#60. Inventive man has invented nothing
nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Dorothy Thompson
#61. Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.
Ogden Nash
#62. Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
Carly Simon
#64. What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.
Camille Paglia
#65. That's why I'm very wise [in] the way I choose the remixes 'cuz I know that the song has to transcend well. You already have a base, instead of me just doing my own production and I don't have to start from scratch.
Cedric Gervais
#66. When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
Pema Chodron
#67. You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.
Blake Lively
#68. I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy.
Nina Campbell
#70. Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
Eve Merriam
#71. Instead of an ugly scratch of a scar, he'd given her a beautiful piece of himself. A snowflake. Small and discreet, noticeable if you knew to look, but otherwise really just for her. A gift.
Laura Kaye
#72. I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.
John August
#73. It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
Carson Kressley
#74. Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben
#75. Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
Usain Bolt
#76. I beat at him uselessly with my fists. I scream. My mind races. I'll pee on him. Puke, bite, scratch. Sure, I'll lose, but if he's going to mark me I am going to mark him, too, if such a thing is possible.
Cynthia Hand
#77. Bite me. Scratch me. Cut me. Break me open, until I crack and all the ugly things fly out of my body to drench us both in sated lust. Yes.
Nenia Campbell
#78. I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
Pierce Brosnan
#79. You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?
Stephenie Meyer
#80. I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight.
Haruki Murakami
#81. If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.
Brad Paisley
#82. Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.
Stephen Jay Gould
#83. She gets that fabulous edge that girls get to their voices, the edge that spells oncoming Tantrum From the Bowels of Hell, that says, 'I'll scratch the heavens down around you and suck the fucken air from your lungs and spit you to fucken hell and you know it.
D.B.C. Pierre
#84. Those who flame up in anger against you; Satan gave them the fire to do so! Those who scratch your wound for it to pain you; Satan gave them the stick to do so! Don't hate the people; hate the man who sponsor's them~ satan!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. 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
#86. Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.
Rebecca Scherm
#87. People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone's eyes out.
Yuri Herrera
#88. Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.
Zubin Mehta
#89. I scratch off number five very slowly and the marker squeaks. "But I'm only dancing with you." "Sounds like a great plan to me." He offers me his elbow and I link my arm with his, feeling safe with him by my side as we saunter down the hall to go outside.
Jessica Sorensen
#90. To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.
Marian Keyes
#91. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
Ray Davies
#92. She went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have but you are not going to get any kind of spark.
Tayari Jones
#93. If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.
Robert Irwin
#94. Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get.
Laura Kasischke
#95. Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard
I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
Chamillionaire
#96. Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.
Frances Hardinge
#97. Letter from Mr. B:
Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
Jerry Spinelli
#98. You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch.
Robin Sacredfire
#99. Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.
Mac orders, "Deb, stop!"
Deb says, "It's just a scratch. I'll worry about it later.
David McKoy
#100. People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
Jason Bateman
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