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.

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

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

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.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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

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.