Scratches Quotes

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

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Lord Byron

Mistake, Mind, Mortals

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Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

Tallulah Bankhead

Funny, Life, Humor

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Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

Gail Caldwell

Fantasy, Nightmare

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I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

Ray Nagin

Taken, Thinking, Needs

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Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Bikram Choudhury

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

Josh Billings

Garden, Chickens, Knows

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Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!

Graham Chapman

Arms, Pansies

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Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Peace Pilgrim

Real, Ideas, Surface

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A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

Building, Jokes, Hard

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.128, Seven Stories Press

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Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

Joseph Heller

Mean, Hands, Grease

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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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

Hair, Shirts, Belly

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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 conversation and chocolate.

Mel Gibson

Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

William C. Bryant

Funny, Running, Truth

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

Janet Malcolm

Photography, Two, Painting

Janet Malcolm (1981). “Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography”

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That's life. We all go through the tractor blades now and then. We all get bruised, and we all get cut. Sometimes the blade cuts deep. The lucky ones come through with a few scratches, a little blood, but even that isn't the most important thing. The most important thing is having someone there to scoop you up, to hold you tight, and to tell you everything is all right.

Vicki Myron

Cutting, Blood, Important

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If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Austin O'Malley

Devil, Saint, Ifs

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There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Destiny, Order

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I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Kevin Kelly

Funny, Kind

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I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

Basketball, Sports, Football

Source: www.pbs.org

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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

Italo Calvino

Past, Hands, Cities

Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.

Eve Merriam

Wall, Wailing, Jew

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Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Dorothy Parker

Actors, Actresses

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

LeCrae

Hurt, Giving, Temptation

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