One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
People in New York, LA, San Francisco, they scratch their head at the concept of a gay Republican, but it really makes… — Kirby Dick Copy Share Image
What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit -… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else.… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. — David Geffen Copy Share Image
If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image