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Scratching could not make it worse. . . such a face as yours. -- William Shakespeare
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. -- Michel de Montaigne
Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament. -- R. C. Sproul
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings. -- Martin Amis
It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over."Scratching The Head -- Diane Williams
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. -- Marina Oswald
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. -- Leo Durocher
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. -- Simon McBurney
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. -- David Hume
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. -- Samuel Lover
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. -- Henry Ford
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference? -- Paul Allen
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story. -- Tito Jackson
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded. -- Eric San
My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible! -- Simon Le Bon
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. -- Lewis Black
With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching. -- Greg MacGillivray
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism. -- Diane Ackerman
Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar. -- James Altucher
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. -- C. S. Lewis
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. -- Mary Higgins Clark
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. -- Samuel Lover
I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting. -- Sara Paxton
There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going. -- Cheryl Ladd
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked. -- Paul Davies
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of. -- Don Cheadle
It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked. -- Jared Leto
I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor. -- Nadine Velazquez
If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out? -- Michael Shannon
I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from. -- Theo James
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In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it. -- Ram Dass
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. -- Virginia Woolf
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch. -- Eric S. Raymond
Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves -- Kathy Lette
Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes. -- Eazy-E
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. -- Dennis Green
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. -- David Mitchell
I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching. -- A-Trak
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... -- Charles Stross
Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy. -- Eoin Colfer
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening. -- John Green
I'm really into pandas right now. They're really scratching an itch for me. They're so goddamn cute. -- Nick Kroll
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone. -- Dan Wells
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out. -- Jonathan Evison
After months of training, I broke the record. Then right after that I celebrated by scratching all my CDs. -- Jarod Kintz
You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth. -- James Stewart
When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could. -- Lucie Arnaz
I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something. -- Billy Crystal
I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever. -- Greg Wise
Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching -- John Walter Bratton
There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes. -- Leigh Bardugo
90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare. -- Danny Dyer
He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said. -- Kelley Armstrong
Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated. -- Joy Browne
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded. -- Eric San
As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door... -- Dana Gould
This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. -- Rand Paul
Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch. -- James Altucher
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. -- Dean Koontz
A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The distance finally broken. -- Colum McCann
I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface. -- Alex Rodriguez
I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial. -- John Avery
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak. -- Joshua Mohr
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines. -- Patricia Hampl
All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.) -- Rick Riordan
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance. -- Michel de Montaigne
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. -- Christopher McDougall
When I get off a flight, I'm not trying to sit there and let them take pictures of me. I'm tired. I'm scratching my eyes. I just don't like taking pictures in general. -- Justin Bieber
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. -- Jean Baudrillard
When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap. -- Nick Lowe
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching. -- Charles Darwin
My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama. -- Maria Callas
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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