#scratch

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#lasts #life #sand #scratches

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#began #early #first #formed #hand

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. ↗

— William Beveridge

#find #often #pessimist #privilege #scratch

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl! ↗

— Denise Crosby

#black #did #down #ever #finally

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. ↗

— Betty Rollin

#feminists #longs #most #object #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

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#blair #bush #caves #law #literature

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

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#hours #incredibly #network #program #scratch