Scratches Quotes - Page 15

• I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

  Danilo Kis

  People, Scar, Refined

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• I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Two, Safety, Wife

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Night, Forever

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• The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

  Andre Gide

  Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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• If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

  Meg Greenfield

  Government, Discipline, United States

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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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• 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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• 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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• Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Father, Believe, Qualms About

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Process

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Starting Over, Saturn, Type

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• Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

  Julian Tuwim

  Strong, Prohibition, Fidelity

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• That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Trying, Doe, Cover Ups

  Sharon Jaynes (2007). “The Power of a Woman's Words”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers

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• I approach every role from scratch.

  Paul Dano

  Roles, Approach

  "Paul Dano on Dream Girl Zoe Kazan Coming to Life in Ruby Sparks". Interview with Karen Kemmerle, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.

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• When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Next, Ends, One Thing

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• You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

  John Cullum

  Actors, Littles, Preacher

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com.

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• Scratch my back with a hack saw!

  Mike Lange

  Saws, Hacks

  "Cow-kicked: FSN fires Lange as Penguins' TV voice". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2006.

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• In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, People, Directors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

  Steve Aylett

  People, May, Originality

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• Scratch a king and find a fool!

  Dorothy Parker

  Kings, Fool

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Dignity, Minutes

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