Scratching Quotes

There were nine children in my father’s family and eight in my mother’s. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.

I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.

Batman has what is quite possibly the best rogues’ gallery every created. People who have never read a comic can name half a dozen of his foes, and that’s barely scratching the surface.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

I think we’re just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we’re enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself, but its also wrapped in this mythos. There are of these tall tales and crazy stories about the West that you hear and can never really be sure of whats true and whats not.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, ‘What the hell am I supposed to do with this?’ For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there’s someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they’re the same. How can He separate us all out?

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don’t care who you are.

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don’t know it have so far been overlooked.

Some people aren’t touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you’d walk into the family room and there’d be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it’s icy, and I’m in bare feet.

To me, movies is just scratching the surface for the work. There are people who are so, so great at that.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

I think the most hectic time in my house is about six o’clock in the morning, our sausage dog starts howling and barking and scratching to wake us all up – no alarms needed.

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

There is a scene in the movie with DJ Cutkiller, one of the biggest European DJs from France, and he was scratching like crazy. When I saw that, I was 14, and I was like, ‘Yo that’s what I want to do. That’s crazy.’

My speed as a tall guy is deceptive. You look at me and I might not look fast, but when I go out and play, people are left scratching their heads like ‘Where did that come from?’

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they’re worried about scratching the records, but it’s incredible!

If there’s a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it’s where people go to die.

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that’s all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

We’ve got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that’s kind of the essence of NXT.

We’re barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.

I don’t have session players come in and guitars, I’m doing the drums, I’m doing the scratching, I’m doing every sound you hear and that’s always been my way. And not only that, I’m very meticulous about it just sounding right.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can’t afford and healthcare they can’t avail themselves of.

Shostakovich’s final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.

I’m terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.

I’ve gotten better every year. I’m only going to continue to get better and better, and I’m just scratching the surface. I’m 25 years old, and I’ve been hooping at a high level for a long time.