After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.
I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness. . . I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk. "
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.
Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
Itch to read, scratch to understand.