Scratch Quotes
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash -
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
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne -
It kind of just typifies our whole year, having to scratch and claw through it all. It's not always easy. We were playing the number five or six team in the country and we knew it was going to be tough, so I'm proud of the way our guys did compete.
Bob Stoops -
Maggie was scratching at the door. I let her in. And then I thought that maybe life was like that—there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
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 -
I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
Skip Marley -
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
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I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
Andrea Zittel -
We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
Brian May Queen -
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!
Marianne Williamson -
It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!
Carrie Vaughn
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Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart -
I feel like they are starting from scratch again, 10 steps backwards.
J. M. Roberts -
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
Milla Jovovich -
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
Jonathan Swift -
“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”
Austen Chamberlain -
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
Bill Gates
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With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s -
One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.
Aminu Kano -
Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
Ben Lerner -
Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy
Michael Ondaatje