If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm

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

It is expensive to start from scratch though.
David Leslie

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!
Derek Jacobi

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

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

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

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
Ruby Dee

One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Scott Reed

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
Jason Bateman

San Diego walked away with just a scratch.
Susan Davis

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

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
Milla Jovovich

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

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
James Huneker

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
Betty Rollin

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

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
Robert Lanza

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
Carly Simon