..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
That's life. We all go through the tractor blades now and then. We all get bruised, and we all get cut. Sometimes… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind… — Ibrahim Hooper Copy Share Image
Generally I'll keep 95% of what I sing on that first scratch vocal take. Sometimes that idea will ferment for a long… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg. — Beau Mirchoff Copy Share Image
Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours. — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image