#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

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#ask #bad #bad news #company #easy

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bite #blood #doing #horrified #hurts

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

— Ruby Dee

#head #i #mind #ok #scratch

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#car #claim #even #finishing #going

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

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. ↗

— David Geffen

#company #entrepreneur #opportunity #scratch #start

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up. ↗

— James Harden

#get #gets #going #guys #i

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

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. ↗

— James Huneker

#child #scratch #surprise #you