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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• Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

  Gail Caldwell

  Fantasy, Nightmare

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

  Eve Merriam

  Wall, Wailing, Jew

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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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• 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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• I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask, but if it comes up naturally somehow and I offer up the story, they are quite interested. Some people are just dumb: 'Did a cat scratch you?' God bless. Those sweet dumdums I never mind. Sometimes it is a fun sociology litmus test, like when my friend Ricky asked me, 'Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?' Hmmm. It was not a black guy, Ricky, and I never said it was.

  Tina Fey

  Sweet, Fun, Cat

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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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• 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 never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  Norton Juster

  Dog, Confusing, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

  John Green

  Dad, Book, Reading

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dog, Baby, Lying

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fall, Cat, Eye

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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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• 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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• You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Writing, Details

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• There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

  Michelle Ryan

  World, Surface, Havens

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• Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

  Laurence Olivier

  Actors

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