Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.
Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't. " "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!
. . her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.
Oh yeah, that’s the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn’t help it—I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.