Scratch Quotes

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Simple, Philosophy, Full

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

Wish, Universe, Apple

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash

Happiness, Itch

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

Freedom, Patriotism, Passion

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Long, Everything

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

Nothing, Find, Both

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 were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lee

Pain, Heart, Thoughts

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Jon Stewart

Great, Someone, Ruin

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 conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson

Marriage, Women, After

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Thomas J. Watson

Good, Bad, Easy

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 little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Happy, Fun, Acting

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.
Hayden Fry

Team, Itches, Gives

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Israel Zangwill

Find, Christian, Spoiled

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
Franklin P. Jones

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
Julia Roberts

Love, Time, Great

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
Maria Sharapova

Family, Career, Whole

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover

Nothing, Once, Literature

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter

Yourself, Impossible, Hear

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

Experience, Few, Less

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
Orlando Bloom

Human, Him, Used

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
Christian Bale

Acting, Start, Movie

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
Ina Garten

Everything, Nobody, Wants

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben

Mother, Wanted, Story

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Harlan Coben

Life, Work, Romantic

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben

Life, Happy, Live

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
Christopher Meloni

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
Fiona Apple

Play, After, Sometimes

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
Eric Bana

Time, Learn, Familiar

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
Nick Clegg

Freedom, Trying, Makes

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
Usain Bolt

Again, Season, Starting

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