Scratches Quotes - Page 6

• We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Rights, People

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.

  George Pattison

  Strong, Growing Up, War

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.

  Jamie Dimon

  Issues, Acquisition, Want

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.

  Anna Meredith

  Honesty, Talking, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

  Deepak Chopra

  Play, Judging, Faults

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.302, Harmony

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• The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

  Perry Brass

  Revenge, Men, Years

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Community, Mosques, Levels

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• Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.

  Bryan Fuller

  People, Watches, Horror

  "'Hannibal' And The Consequences Of Violence". Interview with Kate Aurthur, www.buzzfeed.com. May 14, 2013.

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• One of the things that really gets me excited and makes me start up companies is the fact that you can basically build something new, try to introduce a change in a way that people are used to doing certain activities, and basically create something out of scratch that doesn't exist and would revolutionize whatever it is that you are trying to do with it. So that's part of the reason I love being able to be a technologist.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Love Is, People, Trying

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

  Kit Williamson

  Stories, Calling, One Thing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.

  Irina Tweedie

  Names, Oneness, People

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature.

  George Carlin

  Flames, People, Wish

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, Sheep, Family And Friends

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Needs

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• Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.

  Corey Feldman

  Block, School, Kids

  "The Hot Seat: Corey Feldman". Interview with Barbara Hoffman, nypost.com. June 26, 2005.

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• Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.

  Kathleen Norris

  Hard Work, Writing, Heart

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• The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

  Martin Jacques

  Beach, Sri Lanka, Tourism

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  Nagarjun

  Desire, Bliss, Greater

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• By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

  David Byrne

  Zero, Talking, Feelings

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2011.

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• One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

  John Dos Passos

  Memories, Leaving, Mind

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

  Rene Redzepi

  Jobs, Want, Cuisine

  "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

  Ogden Nash

  Bliss

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

  Peter Farb

  Children, Two, Together

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• 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 Lea

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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