#itch

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #pitcher #play #setting #up

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#came #concepts #correct #devices #early

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#directors #finished #gone #great #great talent