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Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.”

Ifs Wells Looks Persons Play Realizing Judging Faults Come Up Pool Lenses Scratches Guardian Paradigm Skeptic Scrutiny Squat

Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

“It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.”

Kind Community Levels Type Institutions Surface Opposition Bigotry Stereotype Scratches Mosques Muslim Community

Author:Ibrahim Hooper

“If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire”

Ifs Desire Greater Bliss Worldly Scratches

Author:Nagarjun

“The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.”

World Littles Made Whole Facts Enjoy Television Illusion Majority Surface Whole World Beach Intimate Scratches Tourism Thailand Sri Lanka Whereabouts

Author:Martin Jacques

“You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.”

Trying Surface Treasure New Orleans Scratches Amazing Places

Author:Blake Lively

“Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.”

Ifs Enough Play Kids Wanted School Certain Choices Actors Cases Hair Becoming Lessons My Family Weight Balls Bars Block Auditions Bike Scratches Messed Up Bar Mitzvah

Author:Corey Feldman

“I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!”

Ifs Knows Needs Humor Funny Tickets Scratches Lottery Lotion Lottery Ticket

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.”

My Own Sheep Sheer Family And Friends Scratches Knots Sweaters

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature.”

People Ifs Said Wish Harmony Flames Disappointed Bells Better Life Scratches Idealist Cynic

Author:George Carlin

“I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.”

People Littles Different Names Bits Students Little Bit Oneness Scratches Comparative Religion Different Names

Author:Irina Tweedie

“It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.”

Stories One Thing Calling Scratches

Author:Kit Williamson

“One of the things that really gets me excited and makes me start up companies is the fact that you can basically build something new, try to introduce a change in a way that people are used to doing certain activities, and basically create something out of scratch that doesn't exist and would revolutionize whatever it is that you are trying to do with it. So that's part of the reason I love being able to be a technologist.”

People Way Trying Reason Facts Able Used Certain Love Is Company Activity Excited Something New Introducing Scratches

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.”

People Ifs Film Watches Horror Offense Scratches Horror Film

Author:Bryan Fuller

“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.”

Way Writing Heart Mean Matter Hard Order Process Attention Teach Taught Poet Hard Work Bears Discipline Fruit Mess Pay Attention Scratches Erase Wrong Way Blur Matters Of The Heart

Author:Kathleen Norris

“It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.”

Boys New York Tough Towns Scar Minors Scratches Bruises Fickle

Author:Reggie Jackson

“History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.”

Ifs Shows Government Actors Becoming Harder Proof Our Time Show Business Scratches Elders Statesmen Cato

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.”

Knows Kind Book Scratches

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.”

Thinking Sometimes Happens Running Loses Break Media Picks Digital Print Rays Dirt Scratches New Media

Author:William Friedkin

“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.”

Ifs May Hands Film Depends Directors Benefits Projects Creating Shots Etc More Time Scratches Spontaneity Lighting Finesse

Author:Roger Deakins

“[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.”

Way Writing Kind Different Real Process Approach Originals Scratches Initials

Author:Zack Snyder

“I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.”

Enough Scene Gun Rose Hated Sunset Hanging Out Scratches Claws Guns N Roses

Author:Slash

“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.”

Way Want Giving Writing Humans I Can Enough Stories My Own Secret Moral Air Cost Curiosity Love Story Data Infrastructure Scratches Thin Air

Author:James Ellroy

“Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."”

Whole Kids Attitude Changed Like You Scratches Cords Spinal Cord

Author:Pat Benatar

“So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.”

Way Reason Enough Problem Artist Voice Stress Assuming Leaving Singers Block Damage Martial Arts Nerves Scratches Harness Brazen Martial Artist

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.”

Moments Certain Effort Mystery Sea Spring Surface Bubbles Rolling Scratches Tempest

Book:Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

Source: Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

“Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Body Cutting Strange Scratches Bumps Bruises Scabs

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.”

Reason Praise Moved Excuse Tongue Criticize Gossip Bites Roof Tempted Scratches

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.”

Way Faces Personality Appearance Characteristics Mask Conception Hostile Scratches American Society American Way Of Life

Author:Julius Evola

“I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.”

Thinking Ends Sports Football College Pure Basketball Racism Fairs Coaches African American The End Of The Day Representation Old Fashioned Scratches College Football College Basketball

Author:Frank Deford

“Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its door. I leave it to other people to figure out whether there's legal responsibility.”

People Responsibility Moral Doors Figures Argument Scratches Moral Responsibility

Author:Joe Berlinger

“Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.”

People Ifs Firsts Made Two Book Real Force Novel Couple Edges Scratches

Author:Ben Lerner

“I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.”

Writing Process My Own Taught Writing Process Scratches Guitarist

Author:Beth Orton

“According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.”

People Hands Gold Logic Fortune Best Things Live By Things In Life Crap Robots Scratches Cookies Fortune Cookie Best Things In Life Best Things In Life Are Free

Book:I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Source: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.”

Behinds Nice Fine Ears Toes Scratches

Author:Mike Pesca

“Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.”

Humans Ideas Real Human Beings Capable Surface No Idea Scratches

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.”

Writing Dog Cat Bites Scratches

Author:James Ellroy

“Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.”

Fighting Names Teach Nice Drink Lessons Fingers Demon Scratches Very Nice Ankles

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success.”

Ifs Way Looks Easy Stuff Fashion Like You Grew Clothes Grew Up Safety Starting Factors Buying Scratches Wardrobe High Fashion Preppy

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.”

People World Way Mean Doe Rights British Scratches

Author:N. T. Wright

“I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little bit of something if you're interested go read about it and it's a little bit more fascinating. It kind of is.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Mean Littles Film Bits Little Bit Surface Fascinating Scratches

Author:Chris Henchy

“One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.”

Knows Garden Chickens Scratches

Author:Josh Billings

“A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.”

Hard Building Jokes Scratches Snaps

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.”

Men Mean Values Humanity Liberty Class Sun Security Promise Thirds Protection Favors Quitting Cherish Inferiors Scratches Despots

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.”

Hours Records Five Mines Glasses I Realized Scratches Philip

Author:Emo Philips

“Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.”

Savages Scratches

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk This Way,' all the killer songs in the world start with an identifiable guitar pattern that is basically a bastardization of either honky-tonk or boogie-woogie. And that's in every cool piece of music in the world that you and I love.”

Ifs World Way Care Song Walks Pieces Cat Guitar Patterns Satisfaction Don't Care I Don't Care Killers Mars Scratches Fever Very Cool Aerosmith Boogie Tonks

Author:Ted Nugent

“Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.”

Ifs Knows Want Years Home Jobs Careers Plans Right Now Stuck Corporate Transition Sweat Scratches Personal Experiences Making A Living

Author:James Altucher

“When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.”

Actors Opinion Roles Creating Assets Scratches

Author:Beau Willimon

“But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.”

Way Ideas Done Bigs Produce Easier Exciting Scratches Underdog Almost Done

Author:Jason Blum

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