Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches,… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
No one wants to hear you speak, Bradie Boy," Kitten said in that scratchy voice of hers. "Like that's ever stopped me.… — Gena Showalter 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
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… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative,… — Michael Ghiselin Copy Share Image
I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my… — Edwyn Collins Copy Share Image
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. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, it’s true. Beautiful things have dents and scratches too.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
