He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.
I’ve always felt like the Beastie Boys were three Gilbert Gottfrieds screeching at me, and I prefer fingernails scratching on a chalkboard.
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
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.
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there...
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
Thousands of years ago, when kitties first domesticated humans, we did it so that someone would scratch our butts.
