Words matter. These are the best Scratch Quotes from famous people such as Usain Bolt, Robert Irwin, David E. Kelley, Maureen Dowd, Victor Cruz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Every season, for me, it’s like starting from scratch again.
If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.
If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.
Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.
My whole life I’ve never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.
When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.
‘Constitutional’ is an unashamedly educational podcast from the ‘Washington Post.’ Sub-titled ‘a podcast about the story of America,’ it’s presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch.
The more things you make from scratch, the less expensive and usually healthier and tastier.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
It is true that the gameplay for ‘Orcs&Elves’ was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.
It’s always daunting to start from scratch, but it’s exactly what I love about my job.
When my kids were in the school play for the first time, I decided I had to make the costumes from scratch and bought material, wadding, dyed T-shirts, and purple tights so I could say I made the octopus costume myself.
What’s nice is between ‘Wolverine and the X-Men’ and ‘Thor,’ I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren’t they?
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn’t going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the ‘seagull syndrome’ – we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that’s a scary place to go.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing – and I think seeing the ‘Adventure Time’ universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
I keep up to scratch on the sax.
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by – and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.
Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be.
I like being pregnant – feeling the baby moving, acknowledging the miracle that we’re capable of producing a whole other being from scratch. I feel more like a woman than ever before. There’s just an all-around sensation of power.
I was so inspired by the Alfa 158 that I made my own version of it from scratch.
Scratch a Russian, and you’ll find a peasant.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There’s more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure – and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.
I only scream and scratch when something’s only ‘really good’ or ‘good’, I want to be great, or let’s go home.
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions – on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets – simply aren’t up to scratch.
When cats scratch the furniture, it’s only because they’re trying to sharpen their claws, which means they get so long that they want to grind them down. So if you trim their claws routinely, it helps tremendously.
Although I’m a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.
I think everything that I’ve done, I’ve been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I’m not sure how good I’d be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that.
A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.
Actually, after ‘All Love Lost’ I was so drained creatively that I didn’t have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.
I don’t think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.
My dad’s a scratch golfer and I’ve got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.
I still feel like when I walk on the set, I’m starting from scratch, until I realize, ‘OK, I do know what I’m doing. I’m human.’
I don’t think it’s so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.
When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.
To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
People ask, ‘What are the scientific questions you’re going to answer?’ New Horizons doesn’t have any of those; it’s purely about raw exploration… We’re not ‘rewriting the textbook’ – we’re writing the textbook from scratch.
At Spago, we make all of our pasta from scratch with egg yolks, so I’m always looking for new ways to play with egg whites.
For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.
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.
I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don’t really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
