#scratch

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#becomes #enough #having #itch #like

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#attitude #because #gay #give #go

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. ↗

— Ruby Dee

#head #i #mind #ok #scratch

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#college #crawl #every #every step #get

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. ↗

— James Huneker

#child #scratch #surprise #you

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#belly #frenetic #hair #his #i

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. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#achieve #already #enough #everything #find

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

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#empty #fill #full #i #itches

Love is like an itch. Scratch that, no it isn’t.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#humor #itch #love #scratch #age