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Quotes About Scratching

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon.
~ David Cronenberg
Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
~ David Hume
Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
~ Zac Efron
Wind is in the cane. Come along.Cane leaves swaying, rusty with talk,Scratching choruses above the guinea's squawk,Wind is in the cane. Come along.
~ Jean Toomer
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
Trent looked me up and down. "Is that all you're going to do?" My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. "I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.
~ Kim Harrison
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
But they are only the faces of the dead. Coming into detail as we hurtle toward them. They see us, too. Fingers scratching at the ice's rough underside, desperate to be the first to pull us down.
~ Andrew Pyper
In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.
~ Jim Nabors
Oh." Dr. Houllier scratched the side of his head. "Then, what about these apes? You can't leave them on my floor. Especially not that big one. I treated him after one of his victims bit him and his arm got infected. He's called Mansour. He's a psychopath. What will he do when he wakes up and finds me? It's obvious I helped you.
~ Lee Child
Me pica muchísimo el culo
~ Albert Einstein
reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped—indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
~ David Hume
Fishing and ear scratching. The two reasons men were given hands.
~ Robin Hobb
Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.
~ Louise Erdrich
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The light shifts around the dais to the scratching of the chalk on the page, each line careful, considered, the result of a singular communion between the eye and the hand.
~ Sarah Dunant
Relationships are being made amongst people not on trust ,but on the worst practice of scratching each other back till both are getting their personal gains met.
~ Anuj Somany
The tall man grinned. "Presumably you'll use your saxe knife, as usual?" "I'll use anything I can get my hands on," the beggar said ruefully, scratching away. The tall man's grin widened. "Well, it'll be nice to have you back to your normal self, Halt," he said.
~ John Flanagan
I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
~ Diplo
When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. Their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, and their spirits came towards me, into my arms.
~ Markus Zusak
Self-esteem. That's one of those catch-all terms that means nothing at all, but the mere mention of it leaves all the socially conscious liberal types nodding sagely and scratching their chins.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
~ Austin O'Malley