Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. Henry Ford
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. David Hume
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
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 in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. Leo Durocher