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scratching

«Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.»
«The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.»
Author: Marina Oswald | Keywords: scratching
«When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.»
Author: Samuel Lover | About: Literature | Keywords: itch, scratch, scratching
«Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it»
«Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.»
«My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.»
Author: Maria Callas (Soprano) | Keywords: drama, role, scratching
«When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation»
«No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.»
«Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets»