Quotes about Scratch

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. Votes: 4

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Votes: 4

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. Votes: 4

Scratch a king and find a fool! Votes: 3

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. Votes: 3

Scratch my back with a hack saw! Votes: 3

Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed. Votes: 3

Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist. Votes: 3

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare. Votes: 3

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. Votes: 3

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. Votes: 3

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. Votes: 3

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor. Votes: 3

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob. Votes: 3

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress. Votes: 3

Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall. Votes: 3

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist. Votes: 3

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. Votes: 3

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch. Votes: 3

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. Votes: 3

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. Votes: 3

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. Votes: 3

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe! Votes: 3

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ... Votes: 3

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. Votes: 3

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer. Votes: 3

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Votes: 3

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax. Votes: 3

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. Votes: 3

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won. Votes: 3

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact. Votes: 3

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. Votes: 3

No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed. Votes: 3

Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts. Votes: 3

Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death. Votes: 3

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant. Votes: 3

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible. Votes: 3

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. Votes: 3

One learns to itch where one can scratch. Votes: 2

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Votes: 2

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches. Votes: 2

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry! Votes: 2

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Votes: 2

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do. Votes: 2

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home. Votes: 2

There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies. Votes: 2

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch. Votes: 2

I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Votes: 2

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Votes: 2

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. Votes: 2

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want. Votes: 2

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself. Votes: 2

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich. Votes: 2

I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. Votes: 2

One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it. Votes: 2

I approach every role from scratch. Votes: 0

Itch to read, scratch to understand. Votes: 0

One learns to itch where one can scratch. Votes: 0

I have no problem with starting from scratch. Votes: 0

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch. Votes: 0

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch. Votes: 0

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch. Votes: 0

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week. Votes: 0

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write. Votes: 0

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. Votes: 0

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again. Votes: 0

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch? Votes: 0

Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself. Votes: 0

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil. Votes: 0

My family and I built my whole career from scratch. Votes: 0

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy Votes: 0

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off! Votes: 0

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours. Votes: 0

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. Votes: 0

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches. Votes: 0

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves. Votes: 0

Belief builds from scratch. Doesn't have to relax, it doesn't need space Votes: 0

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch. Votes: 0

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you. Votes: 0

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life. Votes: 0

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. Votes: 0

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor. Votes: 0

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. Votes: 0

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches. Votes: 0

If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. Votes: 0

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it. Votes: 0

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch. Votes: 0

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. Votes: 0

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today. Votes: 0

When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg. Votes: 0

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them. Votes: 0

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches. Votes: 0

I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass. Votes: 0

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. Votes: 0

One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. Votes: 0

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. Votes: 0

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. Votes: 0

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions. Votes: 0

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. Votes: 0

My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch. Votes: 0

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Votes: 0

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch. Votes: 0

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Votes: 0

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch Votes: 0

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface. Votes: 0

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. Votes: 0

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside. Votes: 0

You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. Votes: 0

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. Votes: 0

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. Votes: 0

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place. Votes: 0

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. Votes: 0

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing. Votes: 0

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine. Votes: 0

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch. Votes: 0

One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch. Votes: 0

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little. Votes: 0

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. Votes: 0

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do. Votes: 0

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe. Votes: 0

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue. Votes: 0

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up. Votes: 0

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch. Votes: 0

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war. Votes: 0

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market. Votes: 0

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal. Votes: 0

I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch. Votes: 0

A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch. Votes: 0

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner! Votes: 0

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have. Votes: 0

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them. Votes: 0

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. Votes: 0

Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life. Votes: 0

I'm trusting you not to break my heart. If it gets even a scratch, I'll break your face. -Shaye Votes: 0

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it. Votes: 0

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch. Votes: 0

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. Votes: 0

Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy! Votes: 0

Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly. Votes: 0

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch. Votes: 0

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of. Votes: 0

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.... Votes: 0

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business. Votes: 0

Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word. Votes: 0

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new. Votes: 0

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair. Votes: 0

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. Votes: 0

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk." Votes: 0

Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself? Votes: 0

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home. Votes: 0

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. Votes: 0

No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. Votes: 0

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. Votes: 0

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. Votes: 0

Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes. Votes: 0

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it. Votes: 0

I'm the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I'll tap my toe, and that'll be fine. Votes: 0

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. Votes: 0

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. Votes: 0

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. Votes: 0

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch. Votes: 0

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. Votes: 0

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process. Votes: 0

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. Votes: 0

I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation. Votes: 0

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. Votes: 0

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. Votes: 0

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff. Votes: 0

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that. Votes: 0

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. Votes: 0

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. Votes: 0

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch. Votes: 0

Damn humans." I sat on my bike and scratch my crotch. I couldn't help itIf they would only leave me the fuck alone." Votes: 0

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch. Votes: 0

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch. Votes: 0

I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars. Votes: 0

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. Votes: 0

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. Votes: 0

People in New York, LA, San Francisco, they scratch their head at the concept of a gay Republican, but it really makes sense there. Votes: 0

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh. Votes: 0

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there. Votes: 0

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong. Votes: 0

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony. Votes: 0

He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy. Votes: 0

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface. Votes: 0

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him. Votes: 0

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that. Votes: 0

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it. Votes: 0

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years. Votes: 0

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right. Votes: 0

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook. Votes: 0

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.] Votes: 0

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Votes: 0

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want. Votes: 0

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time. Votes: 0

God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time. Votes: 0

If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people. Votes: 0

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability. Votes: 0

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. Votes: 0

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle. Votes: 0

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to. Votes: 0

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost. Votes: 0

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves. Votes: 0

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. Votes: 0

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street. Votes: 0

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new. Votes: 0

No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you. Votes: 0

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing. Votes: 0

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch. Votes: 0

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go. Votes: 0

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people. Votes: 0

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking. Votes: 0

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order. Votes: 0

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won! Votes: 0

Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal. Votes: 0

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch. Votes: 0

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?' Votes: 0

To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-NoCome play with me;Why should you runThrough the shaking treeAs though I'd a gunTo strike you dead?When all I would doIs to scratch your headAnd let you go. Votes: 0

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens. Votes: 0

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. Votes: 0

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out. Votes: 0

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book. Votes: 0

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated. Votes: 0

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. Votes: 0

I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated. Votes: 0

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies. Votes: 0

Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them. Votes: 0

We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work? Votes: 0