Scratches Quotes

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

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.

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

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

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

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.

Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

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