How often do you get to build a pro football league from scratch?
It is easier to rewrite anything – even the worst writing in the world – than it is to write something from scratch.
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 breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It’s usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.
When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no Squarespace, no cloud. If you wanted a website, you had to build it from scratch. If you wanted an online store, you had to completely design it yourself.
You don’t have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver – I used to scratch records on it – and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom’s record or Pop’s record, and they had their names on each and every one.
‘Utopia’ is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
I’m not a DJ – I don’t know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it’s a very musical city. My house was full of music.
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it’s finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of… I don’t want to use the words ‘self sacrifice,’ but that’s what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
When Armaan sang his first song for Vishal Dadlani, he didn’t know that they were making Daboo Malik’s son sing. He went inside the studio when he was 10-11, sang a scratch and it went on to be part of ‘Bhoothnath.’ He didn’t get the opportunity because he was so and so’s kid.
You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It’s all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
I don’t really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.
Everybody’s like, ‘You’re tall. You didn’t play basketball?’ They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.
If we were to build a health care system from scratch, single-payer would be the way to go. But we have a very complex health care system in America.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it’s the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.
With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will – the coders will get that – for this new information, because I didn’t have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.
With ‘Scratch,’ we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.
I’ve not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I’ll listen to ‘Spiral Scratch’ by the Buzzcocks, or ‘Hippy Hippy Shake’ by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it’s always ridiculous. Like, ‘My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?’ ‘I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?’ ‘Is eating a soup going to make me die?’
In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia. There was fundamental economic reform. There was a new constitution and an electoral system built from scratch. But the judicial system was probably the most difficult to reform.
I’m a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.
If you’re writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people’s offense to them? If you don’t get them, and you don’t like them, then don’t watch them.
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
I think I might have exaggerated some abilities in the past. Practical abilities for acting jobs you sometimes have on your CV – I have definitely exaggerated in meetings to get a job and then not been up to scratch on the day.
It’s pretty satisfying to use an image when you don’t have a great articulate response. And to be able to customize emoji? Imagine if you were a car enthusiast and you were able to create a car from scratch. That’s what this is like for me. I’m an emoji enthusiast.
Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color. That is normal.
I love to gamble, always have! In Georgia there is not a casino, so the closest thing to a slot machine is a scratch ticket!
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.
‘The Disaster Artist’ book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there’s something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.
With the solo stuff, it’s like starting over from scratch. It’s rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.
Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island nation.
I want to be a scratch golfer. And when I’m 50, I want to play on the Senior PGA Tour.
I think Formula One is – there’s a lot of differences from track to track, grip levels, tyre compound, so you always have to press the reset button and work from scratch again.
I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.
I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven’t got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn’t up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Home economics – kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn’t happen anymore.
Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the ‘extended order’ of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman… You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they’re going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it’s not my favorite use of my creativity.
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the ‘Huffington Post’ from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
OK, boss, I don’t mind shuffling, but I won’t scratch my head.
In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero – no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls.
