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298 Scratches quotes by 267 unique authors
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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…
— David E. Kelley
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I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think…
— Peter Zumthor
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My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.
— Victor Pinchuk
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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…
— Laurel Lea
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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…
— Peter Farb
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Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.
— Ogden Nash
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One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.
— Ogden Nash
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The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore…
— Christopher Zeeman
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My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite…
— Anna Quindlen
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Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump…
— Frans de Waal
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Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of…
— Zubin Mehta
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I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio,…
— Davy Crockett
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
— William John Locke
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place…
— John Dos Passos
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By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close…
— David Byrne
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I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice…
— Paul Westerberg
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We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
— Hayden Fry
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
— Ina Garten
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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…
— Mel Gibson
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
— Bear Grylls
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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…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
— James Dyson
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
— Gustave Flaubert
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