Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Elias Canetti

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Carson Kressley

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

David E. Kelley

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

Christopher Meloni

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

Lea Michele

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

Laurence Olivier

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

Leif Garrett

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Denis Diderot

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Arthur Brisbane

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Aleister Crowley

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

David Gemmell

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

Andrei Sakharov

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.

Leonardo da Vinci

Savage is he who saves himself.

Ovid

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Kim Harrison

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.