Scratches Quotes - Page 16

• No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Hypocrite, Vision, Watches

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• That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sweet, Wall, Ambition

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

  Heath Ledger

  Imagination, Film, Fingertips

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

  Jose Saramago

  Fall, Elderly, Goes On

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• Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?

  Julia Child

  Home, Hamburgers, Pay

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• Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

  Mary McCarthy

  Socialism, Socialist, Snob

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Voice, Sound, Cracks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

  Tim Tharp

  Wave, Felt

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.128, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. There’s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. That’s Godard. We’re fresh out of ‘bad students.’ You’ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you won’t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.

  Henri Langlois

  Art, Real, Sight

  "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque". Documentary, Biography, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

  Todd McFarlane

  Fortunate

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• Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Term

  1870-85 Ariadne Florentina, lecture1.

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• I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

  Richard Hammond

  Emotional, Brain, Complicated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

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• It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.

  Robert Orben

  Writing, Plot, Done

  "Scandal feeds maelstrom of Clinton jokes - 'Monicagate' a windfall for TV wits" by Lauren Keeport, The Washington Times, p. A2, February 3, 1998.

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• Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Children, Night

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Way, Painful

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 548, 1960.

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• Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.

  Drake Doremus

  Together, Different, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Itch to read, scratch to understand.

  Peter Greenaway

  "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.

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• Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Hypocrite, Watches, Opportunism

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• We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Names

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• I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

  James Marcus

  Pet, Machines, Knows

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• The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Reading, Writing

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• When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

  Beau Willimon

  Creating, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.

  John August

  Song, Add, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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