The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on…

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way…

— Ramakrishna

I don't think I've ever done a character like this before, so I couldn't really draw from previous roles. I've been known for doing…

— Tamsin Egerton

And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul…

— Lisa Kleypas

I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire…

— Tommy Wiseau

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew.…

— Eric Stoltz

“And while we're on the subject, I know you were wondering, and yes, I was checking you out. It had nothing to do with…

— Heather Hildenbrand

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is…

— Sheldon Harnick

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the…

— Robert Lanza

I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little…

— Chris Henchy

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of…

— Harlan Coben

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage…

— Joan Rivers

“And the scratches you left on my back remind me just what it felt like to be deep inside you.”

— Adriane Leigh

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…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society.…

— Ani DiFranco