#scratch

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#display #feel #i #normal #other

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#certain things #enhance #go #how #know

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. ↗

— David Hume

#destruction #finger #prefer #reason #scratching

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

Everybody is standing, but you must stand out. Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough! Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard! Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles! Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not? ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #breakthrough #excel #excellent #exceptional

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

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#apple #apple pie #first #invent #make

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry! ↗

— Ina Garten

#make #nobody #pastry #puff #scratch

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves