Top 100 Quotes About Scratching
#1. 90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
Danny Dyer
#2. [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf
#3. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
Virginia Woolf
#4. I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.
Robert L. O'Connell
#5. No plan,' I sighed. The paper bird had flown away without my noticing, and I wondered briefly where it had gone. 'I need faith, Light, and friendship, apparently.'
Pixie dust. Don't forget that. It's very important.
'Shut up,' I said, scratching him behind the ear.
Mirriam Neal
#6. There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen
Jessica-Lynn Barbour
#7. The thing about love is one can never define it exactly. And as much of a mystery as that is and as familiar it is when we acknowledge it, words just aren't enough. So we find ourselves scratching the walls while our hair is falling out. Then we can't live without it. We become addicts.
Kevin Fuller
#8. There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
Cheryl Ladd
#9. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
Hilary Mantel
#10. Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning.
Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
#11. Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings.
Evan Wright
#13. Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
David Mitchell
#14. 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
#15. Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.
Eazy-E
#16. Evening, lads." The redhead curled her fingers around the back of Sullivan's neck and pulled his head in for a quick kiss. "Hey, baby, I missed you." It took a few head-scratching seconds to realize that he was looking at Isabel Roma.
Elle Kennedy
#17. It's just not as hot without biting, scratching, and spanking, involved.
Jennifer Salaiz
#18. And it's bad enough to be caught in your underpants but even worse to be caught in your underpants scratching out a valium prescription on someone else's pad.
David Sedaris
#19. She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#20. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
Dan Wells
#21. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
Christopher McDougall
#22. The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses]
Virginia Woolf
#23. I bet you she's a pussy cat underneath all that attitude. "A pussy cat?" His friend almost choked. "More like a deadly cougar with sharp claws." "Lucky for her I've got a broad back for scratching and super healing powers. I wonder what it takes to get her to purr,
Eve Langlais
#24. With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching.
Greg MacGillivray
#25. So that was an important part of the process and strangely, early on, we started to realize, in that respect, we were successful in what we were trying to do, which is make a film that everybody would be able come out and not be scratching their head at all.
Bryan Burk
#26. It was one of those Hobart spring nights, cold as charity, snow coming down hard on the mountain, the harbour a lather, sleet slapping and scratching at windows and tin roofs like a wild drunk who's been locked out.
Richard Flanagan
#27. No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
Henry Miller
#28. I don't know, if they want to watch me scratch my butt or eat dinner, I feel like that says more about them than about me." I laugh. "How often are you scratching your butt, exactly?
Veronica Roth
#29. My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.
Maria Callas
#30. Say my name with hints of longing and hunger. I'd like to hear the desire in your voice scraping against the walls, messing up the sheets of my bed, scratching on my skin. Caress every single letter of me like you're making love to me. I want to be owned by you.
Nessie Q.
#31. I can see it now: me holding a map, scratching my head, trying to figure out how I ended up on Venus.
Andy Weir
#32. Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.
Giles Milton
#34. England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
William S. Burroughs
#35. When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.
DJ Spooky
#36. Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. I've heard that even in space;
You can hear the scratching of a
I-I-I-I love you.
Phil Kaye
#38. We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates' faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.
Anna Godbersen
#39. It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over.
"Scratching The Head
Diane Williams
#40. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
Eric S. Raymond
#41. He was leaning back on his bench, scratching his chin thoughtfully. "Why would Charkov sleep with you?" "Gee, I don't know," I said, glowering. "Maybe because he's got good taste?
Rachel Bach
#42. Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves
Kathy Lette
#43. When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.
Edward Ruscha
#44. I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.
Greg Wise
#45. The road to self-deception is narrow to begin with, but there's always someone ready to broaden it out, for as the proverb says, self-deception is like eating or scratching, it's all a matter of beginning.
Jose Saramago
#46. Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
David Hume
#47. There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.
Logan Green
#48. That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
A-Trak
#49. Fishing and ear scratching the two reasons men were given hands.
Robin Hobb
#50. I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
Diplo
#51. I'm really into pandas right now. They're really scratching an itch for me. They're so goddamn cute.
Nick Kroll
#52. She pushed back to arm's length, returning them to the acceptable distance of strangers - or of a mechanic dancing with her emperor. For the first time, Kai missed a dance step, eyes blinking in surprise. She ignored the guilt scratching at her throat.
Marissa Meyer
#53. Thanks for working your tail off." Leglin turned his head to check his hindquarters. "My tail is attached." I chuckled, scratching behind both of his ears. "It's a saying, bub.
Gayla Drummond
#54. Self-esteem. That's one of those catch-all terms that means nothing at all, but the mere mention of it leaves all the socially conscious liberal types nodding sagely and scratching their chins.
Jordan Castillo Price
#55. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.
Paul Davies
#57. What are you going to do first when we get out of here?"
"Have a bath. What about you?"
"I'm torn between drinking, showering, and pizza."
"You're such a guy you might as well have said 'scratching my balls and getting my prostate examined'.
Eve Dangerfield
#58. I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.
Amy Tan
#59. In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
Paul Allen
#60. When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
Lucie Arnaz
#61. Everybody oughta have a dog," he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. "Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what's important." He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "A life ain't much of a life without a dog in it, s'what I always said.
Dan Gemeinhart
#62. I have also noted, over the course of our friendship, that his hearing is curiously erratic. He can hear a lizard-bird scratching itself half a mile away, but occasionally seems unable to hear the politest of requests no matter how loudly I shout them at him.
Robert Asprin
#63. A soft hushing sound, like fingernails scratching down an endless sheet of paper.
James S.A. Corey
#64. [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Warren Buffett
#65. There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition
Mina Loy
#66. In the chalky trough under the blackboard
are lessons dusted and already forgotten.
The teacher is squawking away once more,
scratching into the dark Welsh tabula rasa
the truths so far about God and arithmetic
with the expungible white of fossil shells.
Richie McCaffery
#67. Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
Tito Jackson
#68. There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.
Leigh Bardugo
#69. This is all quite fascinating," Grimalkin said, his voice slurring in my ears, "but instead of posing and scratching the ground like rutting peacocks, perhaps you should look to the girl.
Julie Kagawa
#70. In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
Ram Dass
#71. The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
Mary Higgins Clark
#72. What man didn't enjoy a beautiful woman curled up in his lap, even if she did treat him like a scratching post every time she woke up?
Paige Tyler
#73. When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.
Nick Lowe
#74. Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.
Chris O'Donnell
#75. 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
#76. Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
Jean Baudrillard
#77. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon.
David Cronenberg
#78. My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
Eric San
#79. my poems are only bits of scratching
on the floor of a
cage.
Charles Bukowski
#80. Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one.
Twyla Tharp
#81. I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface.
Alex Rodriguez
#82. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
#83. 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
#84. My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!
Simon Le Bon
#85. 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
#86. Shit, man, if you see a dog scratching at the dirt trying to dig something up, walk away real fast, he said, then pulled a little square of paper from his pocket and swallowed whatever was folded inside.
Cole Alpaugh
#87. Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.
Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!
Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!
Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!
Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. Every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching.
W.B.Yeats
#89. Life is complex and prone to being pedantic
Always little things crawl, flutter
and creep in.
Nesting in cracks in our psyches
Gibbering, whispering and scratching
on sanity's walls.
Messages without form or reason
Teasing us to come out
And blend in.
Neil Leckman
#90. Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow
Xi Chuan
#91. Caillen stood on the other side with a perplexed frown. "What are you doing?" He motioned to the blaster in Syn's hand. "Going to war?" Syn lowered his blaster. "I didn't know who was scratching around outside my door. It sounded like someone I might want to shoot.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. World peace for dinner," mused Mik, scratching his beard stubble. "Does that come with fries?"
"It freaking better," said Zuzana. "Or I will send it freaking back.
Laini Taylor
#93. As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door ...
Dana Gould
#94. The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings.
Martin Amis
#95. My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
Jonathan Evison
#96. This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
Lewis Black
#97. What Liam saw was beyond his imagination, and immediately, all of his skin prickled with the bristling hairs. Dozens of shallow cuts paralleled in precision that had nothing to do with scratching yourself against a 'metal thingy'. It was a diary of Ryan's pain, a constant, neverending stabbing
K.A. Merikan
#98. You wonder if that really constitutes being 'a coincidence' but don't press her on the issue, instead sticking your hand down your pocket to pretend to look for something when really just scratching an itchy testicle.
Rudolf Kerkhoven
#99. All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)
Rick Riordan
#100. I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.
John Avery
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