#scratch

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#chin #column #fence #getting #given

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#every #like #me #scratch #season

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#contemplation #even #exhaust #few #few people

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#error #finger #gets #her #locomotive

I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.' ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#buy #carrots #chocolate #cook #eat

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ↗

— Henry Ford

#amount #around #certain #chicken #gets

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible! ↗

— Simon LeBon

#had #how #i #incredible #kids

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. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#been #club #dad #golfer #got

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

— Christopher Meloni

#big #i #i love #itch #love

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#brother #climb #come #crying #fall