Scratching Quotes
96 quotes by 91 authors
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When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really…
— Lewis Black
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
— Dennis Green
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When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
— Lucie Arnaz
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...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my…
— Jerry Fodor
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As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil…
— Malala Yousafzai
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There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression,…
— Cheryl Ladd
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My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a teenager, I had…
— Rick Santorum
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Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's…
— Jeff Beck
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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
— Eric S. Raymond
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In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired…
— Steve Case
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
— Christopher McDougall
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I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train…
— Mary Higgins Clark
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It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface…
— Clifton Anderson
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and…
— Wyndham Lewis
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When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of…
— B. C. Forbes
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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put…
— A. A. Gill
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My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
— Jonathan Evison
Who Wrote These Scratching Quotes
91 authors contributed a total of 96 Scratching Quotes, led by these top contributors: