You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours


American Proverb

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ELLE VARNER
Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms ince...
ZAC EFRON
Tis but a scratch''A scratch?! Your arm's off!''No, it isn't.
MONTY PYTHON
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!
CARRIE VAUGHN
Obviously Chris needs games to get his match fitness level back to scratch.
ROY COYLE
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
GEORGE CARLIN
Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Of course, you always want to be No. 1. We had to scratch and claw our way back, and anything was po...
SHON WASHINGTON
Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole...
LIONEL SHRIVER
It has a tendency to scratch.
DAVID ZUTLER
Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.
SCOTT MOODY
Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,
MATTHEW WRIGHT
Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Scratch first, itch later.
ZEN PROVERB
They made a run at us and we had to scratch and claw to get back into it.
KIT KYLE PUCKETT
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART
& Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R.
We're basically starting from scratch.
DANIEL HALL
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming bloc...
MITCHEL RESNICK
We used a telephone and a scratch pad.
BILL MYERS
Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.
DOROTHY PARKER
They cannot drop everything and start from scratch.
ADAM PILARSKI
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
MILLA JOVOVICH
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
JANET MALCOLM
If you don't like the reflection you see, break the mirror and start from scratch
REZA FARIVAR
Now we know what it takes. So we just take it back to the off-season and crawl back up from scratch ...
MICHAEL MYERS
My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market...
VICTOR PINCHUK
Every year starts from scratch. I know that I am the one everybody wants to beat. It's like I have a...
VALENTINO ROSSI
Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go.
NOISETTES
Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
We completely design the bikes from scratch.
JACOB LEHMAN
I needed to start basically from scratch.
LINDA GRAVES
We feel like we're starting from scratch.
JEFFREY EISENBERG
He's a scratch golfer, so he knows what to do.
BERNARD LANGER
RACHEL MADDUX | ON STAYING HUNGRY
Hunger is everything because it’s nothing - not yet - just...
RACHAEL MADDUX
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
IRISH PROVERB
We lost it all, so we'll have to start from scratch.
CHET JOHNSON
You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business,
JAMES WORTHY
I came out standing up and without hardly a scratch.
COLT SEDBROOK
At this time we're not necessarily just starting from scratch, but we have a lot of experience comin...
BRAD EKWEREKWU
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
LAURIE METCALF
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
OGDEN NASH
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
SCOTT REED
It is expensive to start from scratch though.
DAVID LESLIE
He's my favorite actor, and watching him build a character from scratch and reveal itself -- it was ...
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
RUBY DEE
I have also successfully managed my own small business for almost 10 years, starting from scratch.
NORMAN PEACOCK
Tis but a scratch!"

"A scratch? Your arm's off!"

"No it isn't."

"Th...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
CARL SAGAN
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGAN
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
DR. CARL SAGAN
How do you stop a cat from scratching your furniture? Give her scratch and win lotto tickets.
MARK TWAIN
I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
BARRY STERNLICHT
I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
VICTORIA OSTEEN
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and ha...
HARLAN COBEN
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
CARL EDWARD SAGAN
I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
CARLENE CARTER
I just scratch my head. I enjoy the fact that Toledo gets a major league coaching staff.
JOE NAPOLI
You really think about starting over from scratch, pretending the game hadn't started, and it worked...
JEFF BLAKE
He's arguably the best there is. Against him, you've got to scratch and claw the best you can.
AARON BOONE
You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage d...
STEPHENIE MEYER
You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
INA GARTEN
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN
I've never seen it like this. Never . . . You've got to scratch for everything you get here. Claw. B...
CHRIS SIMON
I don't even think we have begun to scratch the surface.
RAY OZZIE
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
GIANNA PERADA CARINI
The Secret of success is to start from scratch & keep scratching
DENNIS GREEN
Building an airline from scratch is not for the faint-hearted.
FRED REID
We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.
LUKE BODENSTEINER
We lost it all, so we'll have to start from scratch,
JULIE JOHNSON
There wasn't a scratch on him. His left eye was black.
PAM SAYLOR
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the ...
DIEGO LUNA
Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you...
ALEXIS HALL
The universe has an itch, and I have been called upon to scratch it.
JAMES HALAT
My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support w...
G-EAZY
Games like tonight are real frustrating, when you get great pitching like we did and only scratch tw...
JOSH WILLINGHAM
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do.
CEDRIC MAXWELL
Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Do you realize i havent even begun to scratch the surface of the things i want to do to you?
MEREDITH WILD
My Mexican specialty is chilaquiles. I make tortillas from scratch, then add garlic, onions, eggs, c...
SARA RAMIREZ
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER
We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
BUZZ ALDRIN
Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening...
HENRY MILLER
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch ...
ROBERT PENN WARREN
When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
BEAU MIRCHOFF
If the plan doesn't get fully funded, we're going to start from scratch.
ANDY KOPPLIN
There's definitely a fresh slate with Knuckles. Everyone is starting from scratch again.
NATHAN SHARPE
We go through an 18-step process on how to start from scratch.
GREG MOSER
We want them to fight, scream, bite, kick, scratch, whatever they can do.
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