Itchy Quotes

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

  Darynda Jones

  Years, Skins, Allergies

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.117, Macmillan

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• This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Looks, Littles

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Kitchen, Looks

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Philosophical, Men

  "Paul McCartney" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Needs, Cuffs

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• Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

  Tina St. John

  Jesus, Blow, Quitting

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• God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Long, Noses

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Gun, Land

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• There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation.

  Mona Charen

  Religious, Roots, Today

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• If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

  Edward Herrmann

  Years, Two, Three

  "Edward Herrmann talks to Tribute about his new DVD Treasure Buddies". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. January 23, 2012.

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• I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there.

  Neneh Cherry

  Creative, Feelings, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

  Mark Deklin

  Running, Reading, Exercise

  "Mark Deklin: On Love, Parenthood, and Making a Difference". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.

  Nick Hornby

  Moving, Thinking, Forever

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.

  Miranda July

  Animal, Rocks, Perfect

  "Miranda July" by Matthew Higgs, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.

  Amy Poehler

  Power, Littles, Ifs

  "Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, 'I Just Love Bossy Women!'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

  Matt Groening

  Cat, Moon, Thinking

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• Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

  Mo Rocca

  Sweaters, Homemade

  "Knitters' Revenge". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell, www.npr.org. August 17, 2013.

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• If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Brian Eno

  Nature, Echoes, Tree

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• If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

  Levon Helm

  Ifs

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• One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Irritation, Fake

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

  Jackie French

  Morning, Night, Afternoon

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• Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?" Beckett: "Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?" Myles: "I agree with simple-toon." Artemis: "No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'" Beckett: "Itchy what?

  Eoin Colfer

  Brother, Simple, Paris

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