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If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.

Carl Sagan

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

I wish I could be taking golf right now. That's what I want to be working on when I get out, becoming a scratch golfer.

Jay Henry

Only a handful of Democrats know either one of the candidates. Both of them are starting virtually from scratch.

Garry South

We used a telephone and a scratch pad.

Bill Myers

This can be a Sweet 16 team. We're going to be really good in February. We're just scratching the surface right now.

Tom Penders

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

Now we know what it takes. So we just take it back to the off-season and crawl back up from scratch again.

Michael Myers

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow ... and a scratch to her lower back.

Matthew Wright

You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business.

James Worthy

They made a run at us and we had to scratch and claw to get back into it.

Kit Kyle Puckett

Nobody seems to scratch the surface of why we want to keep the museum alive. It's keeping the spirit of all guys who don't make it home. We're helping to keep them alive.

Pat Thornton

This is the right market to access for an Indian company. The market is saturated with branded generics. You can build from scratch, but that takes forever.

Alexander Groschke

We completely design the bikes from scratch.

Jacob Lehman

Building an airline from scratch is not for the faint-hearted.

Fred Reid

I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we just started working together from scratch.

Doug Hughes

We'd been very fortunate not to leave runners on so far this year. But we let some opportunities pass (Monday). If we'd been able to scratch a run or two early, maybe it might have changed the game.

George Hansen

We feel like we're starting from scratch. The only thing we know is that we don't know anything.

Jeffrey Eisenberg

We believe an acquisition would enable Softbank to get its mobile-phone operation off the ground much more quickly and smoothly than if it were to start from scratch.

Tetsuro Tsusaka

It's not too serious. Windows XP has over 45 million lines of code and it would be an enormous job to rewrite from scratch. It's a case of better the devil you know.

Greg Day

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Dennis Conner

I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands like this and take them across the country with them and that's how these bands come to be.

Jack Abraham

I built an industrial piping company from scratch with only two employees. I had just finished a big job in Alaska and decided to move to Burley so my wife could be closer to her family in Oakley.

Neil Justesen

You don't have to spend time fixing the old broken system. You've got to spend time building and developing a performing system from scratch.

Sajan George

All of us will have to start again from scratch, and I don't know how many of us will survive. Most farmers cannot believe the news and are hoping the lab tests confirming bird flu are wrong.

Ghulam Vhora

The surfaces on here aren't as hard or as impervious to scratching and damage as the commercial ones are.

Norm Nichols

Thirty-five years ago I smoked dope and probably could have come up with something like that. To me, it's better to have no slogan than to come up with something like that. There's too much scratching the head about 'What does that mean?

Darrell Bryan

You never imagine that an accident could happen and it would affect the lives of so many people. All of a sudden they had to start over from scratch.

Chris Henry

We're both on the rebound, or whatever that terminology is when you're in recovery from a divorce. We have that in common, both scratching our heads fighting being cynical. And it's hard. You need a lot of humor to fight cynicism, and this movie has it - both, actually. So it's great.

Diane Lane

It's less than what you already spent to make your Web site. We're not recreating content, we are not recreating graphics or images, we are not recreating from scratch.

Myriam Siftar

We need to correct this mistake and give everybody the benefit of the doubt, and we'll start from scratch.

Tim Welch

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

The emotions are just going crazy around here. We get into those ugly, Rocky Balboa-type fights. We just keep banging, scratching and find a way to just pull this thing out. It's not always pretty, but a win is a win.

Marcus Washington

We've got to be able to get up there, make some good contact, scratch out some hits. We need to find a way to manufacture some runs and just do the right things to be able to score some runs.

Brooks Shumake

They'll show how it used to be done historically when ice was used for shipping. They'll be scratching it in a checkerboard way and scoring it.

Dave Richards

We lost it all, so we'll have to start from scratch.

Julie Johnson

The very bottom line of it is it's a blast to pay with the guys, and it's extremely rewarding when you create something from scratch and people like it. For an artist, that's ridiculously flattering, and we're very thankful to be doing what we love.

Jeff Schmutz

We're not just doing the Band-Aid fix. We're really redoing the entire tunnel from scratch.

Vanessa Gulati

We just had to start from scratch. She was very self conscious about the situation because she couldn't smile. She also needed some function back, other than just the cosmetics.

Paul Innis

We were surprised. We were scratching our heads. Something of this magnitude is really out of the ordinary.

Arialdi Minino

We go through an 18-step process on how to start from scratch.

Greg Moser

CBS' morning efforts, ... represent the longest legacy of failure that exists in this business, and you just want to see whether you can break the string, whether you can start from scratch and take it out of last. I'll give it what I've got and hope that's enough.

Bryant Gumbel

Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them has really set up organizations.

Ira Rohter

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

James Gibbons Huneker

I'm not happy with our performance. The days of us just showing up and winning are over. We've got to work and scratch and claw to win every game.

Keith Ellis

We're just scratching the surface.

Claude Arnold

At least the kids are trying, scratching away, although they don't quite have it. It's like watching a cartoon, but it's nostalgic. They're trying. ... all the clear-cutting of babies.

John Franklin

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Franklin P. Jones

Amazon had to build its name up from scratch, ... Barnes and Noble, on the other hand, is very well known. It's obviously much bigger and has greater financial resources.

William Armstrong

What they had to go through was unique for Division I basketball players. They built a program from scratch.

Raegan Pebley

Democrats scratch their heads and can't figure out why he keeps winning. They don't understand how someone so conservative and brash can win in Pennsylvania, a centrist, light-blue state where moderates prevail.

Terry Madonna

I have also successfully managed my own small business for almost 10 years, starting from scratch.

Norman Peacock

Although we had anticipated the scratch card would prove popular, to find ourselves in the very welcome position of having to produce a second edition, especially so soon, is fantastic.

Dianne Thompson

It's been the same story every game: We can't get out of the first inning without giving up runs, and we get absolutely nothing in our half of the first. We're trying to climb and scratch uphill the whole game.

Lynn Williams

My lungs are still burning. Yesterday, I was scratching my eyes all day. I've had allergies in Belgium but not this bad.

Peter Mazur

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Hal Joseph

Every player hates sitting out and watching whether they're injured or a healthy scratch especially when things are not going so smooth.

Ryan Smyth

I'm surprised it's not even worse, ... beginning to scratch their heads.

Rich Galen

We're off to a good start. Tom, Andy and Nate all certainly played up to their potential. Jamie has been struggling lately, but managed to scratch out a win and I expect him to continue to contribute in a positive way. Derek and Cameron played in their first varsity matches and, although their scores aren't what we would like to see, they handled the nerves and both got their first wins.

Peter Stuart

[He points to booming auto sales as proof that consumers are still buying gas guzzlers even in the face of soaring prices.] They complain about the cost of gasoline, but when GM, Ford and Chrysler had their employee-discount programs, guess what they bought? ... You're watching this and scratching your head.

Jack Kyser

My wife saw the building for sale and we thought Main Street was a great location. I started my business from scratch.

Yianni Smiliotopoulos

There wasn't a scratch on him. His left eye was black.

Pam Saylor

We basically came in, knocked down the walls and started from scratch.

Amanda D'alfonso

The man upstairs watched after all of us real well.... We all walked off without a scratch. Very seldom do you lose $500,000 and smile, but we all got up and walked off. I have no gripe. I can make the money back.

Kelton Keathley

At this time we're not necessarily just starting from scratch, but we have a lot of experience coming back.

Brad Ekwerekwu

Consumers are trying to cook more meals from scratch both for health reasons and on social grounds.

Chris Lamb

You name the pie and we do it. They are all made from scratch.

Randy Ferreira

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

Scott Moody

We're trying to start farming from scratch.

Tracy Roberts

We asked, 'Hey, if we were going to do this thing from scratch, what would we do?'

Mike Caldwell

Who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.

Dennis Archer

Building a new media player from scratch would be a bold move and so it is more likely that foreign investors, if anything, would look to acquire established businesses, particularly when there is only a handful of existing players with a substantial footprint.

Neil Johnson

The money goes to education. It has nothing to do with gambling - the outcome of a game. It's a simple scratch-and-win.

Bernadette Mansur

I came out standing up and without hardly a scratch.

Colt Sedbrook

What happens is the cases that we are talking about here have involved elderly people or people with compromised immune systems who come into contact with this water. It can enter the body through a cut or scratch or some kind of abrasion and if it is not treated with antibiotics it can lead to bloodstream or other kinds of infections.

Tom Skinner

Based on current enrollment, state regulations would only allow us to build 130,000 square feet if we started from scratch. The Old Intermediate School is 160,000 square feet.

Carla Sullivan

The cats are terrible. Out of every 10, nine are scratching and biting and hissing.

Jane Garrison

Don't insure your car for every nick and scratch.

Tom Blum

When we started talking about digital lifestyle a while back, people had to scratch their heads to understand what we were talking about. Now everyone lives it.

Rob Schoeben

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Andreas Capellanus

We have received very few calls from customers reporting this problem - we do not think this is a widespread issue. If customers are concerned about scratching we suggest they use one of the many iPod Nano cases to protect their iPod.

Phil Schiller

Reno sits or lays down at the area where the drugs are located. A dog who has been trained for aggressive response will scratch at the location, which often leaves marks on vehicles.

Mike Bloomer

That's the million-dollar question. Why would such a good kid with so much promise do this? We know he had a gambling addiction, but why didn't he seek other options? That has everyone scratching their heads.

John Waldron

Usually we have to scratch and fight for nine innings of baseball. But when you play in a championship environment it intensifies our guys? at-bats.

Bob Miller

Every year starts from scratch. I know that I am the one everybody wants to beat. It's like I have a target on my back.

Valentino Rossi

Some risk is being taken off the table and a little bit of rotation has gone on. People are scratching around for fundamentals in what is really just a positioning exercise that's going on.

Mark Tinker

I think the greatest assets we have are the people we have. There's very little as a group we can't solve, and that's the biggest thing. If there's something I don't know, I can look to my right or to my left and there's someone there who does. Sometimes (with smaller teams) you're scratching your head and there's no one there to ask.

Scott Maxim

I needed to start basically from scratch.

Linda Graves

We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.

Sonnie Bentley

Factory finishes can furnish up to 10 UV- and scratch-resistant layers, and offer a 20-year guarantee that on-site finishers can't get close to.

Gary Mills

It's amazing. We had to rebuild this population from scratch. To see them reproduce on their own is a huge, huge victory.

Kelly Sorenson

Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part of their lives with they need to rebuild from scratch. It has apparently has resulted in widespread frustration, which has made rebuilding efforts that much more challenging.

David Ira Goldstein

When a guy like that goes down, you can do one of two things - you can struggle and get in trouble or you can scratch and claw and find a way to come out victorious.

Quentin Moses

Turns out, the consultant's dream was to build a management information system from scratch because he thought he knew how to do it better than anybody else.

Bob Price

They start out cute and furry, but then they grow up and become destructive. They can gnaw or scratch lots of materials when they're in a stressful environment.

Leonard Sonnenschein

Starting from scratch and being able to put a whole new defense in, being where we are today, we definitely accomplished something. Guys were having fun out there, showing fans that we've gotten our defenses and offenses down. I'm satisfied with our progression right now.

Brandon Archer

Everyone else is tweaking and here I come in and I have to start from scratch. If we don't get me up to speed then the show can't go up, and everyone is focused on the show.

David Schneider

I noticed the kids came home talking about chemical equations and the father's scratching his head. I saw it so often -- the father would say, 'I'm an idiot, but my son is a genius. He knows about malolactic fermentation.' Sooner or later all these wines taste the same.

Kermit Lynch

That's a level where we just scratch our heads.

Mark Berry

If I were a Republican, I would be scratching my head and saying I had just voted for a bill that would ultimately cost far more than the war.

Richard Kogan

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It works like a human would, looking for something that's familiar. It can decide if a certain line is part of the letter 'T' or a scratch on the license plate.

Peggy Kennelly

There was some intrigue in starting this program from scratch. Getting these girls from three high schools to come together as one and really work together has been great.

Claude Tyler

Who knows where all this will go? It's exciting from a historical viewpoint. There's some great people doing some new things, and it's starting to scratch the surface.

John Toole

Everybody's scratching their heads trying to figure out what's going on.

Kent Scheidegger

It's a real challenge because, at 6 and 7, these kids may not even know which side to line up on. It's hard for the guys to start from scratch. It's not a smaller version of the high school game. You can't assume anything at this level.

David Hartman

I can't even put it into words, ... There were 65-, 70-year-old people who have to start from scratch. It's nuts . . . . people don't have anything anymore.

David West

It was almost a mirror image of last week's game when they matched up. Last week they got the win and tonight we were able to scratch out a win for Bush. To pitch the way he pitched in both the last two games he definitely didn't deserve to get two losses for it. It feels good to give him the win and good for our club.

Russ Adams

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Lord William Beveridge

Things were looking pretty bad for us at that point. We could have been done right there. But what I'm most proud of today is that we battled back. Our players just kept scratching and clawing to get back into it.

Arnold Gonzalez

The ring is in perfect condition. It's great. It doesn't have a scratch on it.

John Mckleroy

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Helen Scannell

In each of these businesses, you didn't have to scratch far into the pool to find consumer frustration.

Rich Barton

It has been a difficult thing to get off the ground. We are just scratching the surface. There is simply no way we are going to be able to deliver anywhere near 2.5 million gallons.

Tim Searles

When the [profitable] numbers first came out I think we were all scratching our heads, saying, 'no way.'

Andrea Williams

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

We forgot how we got to that point. We're disappointed, we thought we had a chance to scratch one out.

Bill Parks

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Carrie Barker

We're playing hard; we're scratching, we're fighting and I thought we defended really, really solid. Offensively we're really, really struggling right now.

Bill Fennelly

Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.

Dorothy Parker

The amount collected today won't even make a scratch in the amount that is owed.

Michael Myers

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

We had so many small towns in eastern Montana that didn't have the ability to market themselves. They just had to go digging and scratching to find funds.

Jim Schaefer

He just kind of ran so flat in the Oak Tree Derby that we gave him some time off. We were scratching our heads, pretty confident that he was better than that. Corey gave him a great, patient ride today.

Doug O'neill

It is always an interesting experience creating a theatrical event from scratch. [The students] learn about areas of theatre that undergraduates rarely have the opportunity to experience.

Robin Miller

He's very, very eclectic. There are traces of all different types of genres. It's a matter of scratching and finding the records. It's like making a stew.

Andrew Harding

Sure I'd like to get them a win, but we basically started from scratch and have a lot of girls who never even played the game before. So I'm really concentrating on teaching them the basics of the game right now.

Vern Savage

We're basically starting from scratch.

Daniel Hall

It's the same as if we started from scratch.

Michael Christopher

We didn't even scratch the surface in terms of the work that needs to be done there, but we did make a difference for one homeowner.

Rev. Jared Parmley

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Chip Hester

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Sean Badding

I did it more out of caution than anything. I was the one who self-quarantined. I told the stewards I was scratching everything in the barn and said I was going to self-quarantine until I got back that blood test.

Chris Grove

We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.

Luke Bodensteiner

You need to produce top level hockey every game you play and I think some of the top players were just not up to scratch tonight.

Lindsey Carlisle

We own our buildings and the land they sit on which allows us to control our property costs. We also like to build from scratch whenever we can using construction crews from that community.

Todd Bezenah

'T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich.

Thomas Shadwell

We don't find them particularly flimsy or prone to breakage. If you're carrying things such as keys or coins in a pocket then obviously they are likely to scratch a screen. Mobile phones get bashed and scratched the same way.

Adam Vaughan

It's a huge opportunity for the people who create these networks. You have a 'green field' opportunity in a very large city, and you are starting from scratch.

Mark Herskovitz

Games like tonight are real frustrating, when you get great pitching like we did and only scratch two runs across.

Josh Willingham

We pretty much started from scratch. We kept a few of the fixtures, but most of them are our own design.

Dale Mcgough

One of our selling points is that we have homemade cakes. And I mean they are homemade. From scratch.

Helen Shoulders

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

Ruby Dee

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Russ Williams

We want to get the freshest food possible. Most of the food is cooked to order. Everything is made from scratch.

Tom Welton

There's no staff. There's very little in the way of physical facilities. This is basically starting from scratch.

Dan Erikson

I think we're only scratching the surface on the possibilities this might bring. All we can do now is move ahead.

Richard Seaworth

He took a lot of pressure off the offense. We've been scratching and clawing and couldn't get anything, and when he hit that he kind of loosened us up a little bit.

Josh Willingham

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth. He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why. 'Because,' 'twas answered, 'others lack His skill to scratch the royal back.' Aramis Jukes.

Ambrose Bierce

He's a scratch golfer, so he knows what to do.

Bernard Langer

I thought about it before the play even happened. When the ball comes to me with the bases loaded, you know they're going to try to scratch a run across. I just put everything I had behind it. Everyone on the field and in the stands were so excited. I got caught up in the moment.

Harrison Eldridge

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

Dennis Taylor

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Laurel Lee

They cannot drop everything and start from scratch.

Adam Pilarski

I believe the Fed is holding rates excessively low today -- current monetary policy is inflationary, ... they could scratch out 200 basis points over six months and have minimal effect.

Brian Wesbury

We essentially started from scratch. It is very realistic to say that for a project of this enormity and complexity, we're now moving at breakneck speed.

Larry Quinn

The dollar bears have tried to get a foothold but they have not been successful. You scratch the surface of the data and you say, it's not all that bad.

Samarjit Shankar

He's very careful at selecting the freshest ingredients and everything is made from scratch.

Sue Ernest

He's finally started making progress the last two times out. He not there, but I saw signs today. He's going to get there. But he was that good without facing big-league hitters. [The Orioles] had to be scratching their heads.

Guy Conti

Motorola's results did not just surpass our estimates, consensus, and management guidance, these 1Q 04 numbers were downright huge. Honestly, we are scratching our heads about such a big beat.

Ren Zamora

I've never been ashamed of digging, clawing, scratching out a few runs if that's what we've got to do.

Heather Bruder

In an economic climate like this, people are not as willing to start from scratch every season.

Nicki Gondell

We're all kind of scratching our head on that one.

Marv Esterly

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Dennis Green

We had a fair weekend in the Useless Bay/Double Bluff area. There was a lot of traffic up there. Everyone was obviously having trouble where they had been fishing. Saturday was good. Saturday was scratch fishing.

Gary Krein

I want to give them the best they've ever had at a really good price. Everything we do here is done the best we can possibly do it, mostly from scratch.

Melissa Ettinger

The problem is that while he was in England the injury wasn't treated properly and when he got here we had to start from scratch.

Alfonso Del Corral

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

Marina Oswald

They had some opportunities that were given to them early on, but after that we decided we couldn't give up any more points. There comes a point where no matter what you do, you fight, scratch, claw. And that's what we tried to do. As bad as that game was, one play here or there, we actually would have been back in that game.

Jason Simmons

Most times he wouldn't do anything if the bull was not up to scratch. Or the public would be waiting for something artistic, but he would just go out and kill it in a cowardly way.

Bill Lyon

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Scott Reed

[Building her company from scratch, Stewart had long felt a need] to be perfect on some level as a role model for all these hundreds of people she was bringing along, ... she recognized that there was a big team of people here who had learned from her, who were very, very good at their jobs ? and would allow her now to be a freer person on television.

Susan Lyne

Of course, you always want to be No. 1. We had to scratch and claw our way back, and anything was possible.

Shon Washington

The opportunity not to make a contribution to an institution with a 75-year-old history but to make a contribution to a building from scratch is very exciting for me.

Terence Riley

Apparently, fairly recently he did win $500 on a game called Lucky For Life. They are all scratch-off games.

Alfred Bea

In fact, she made my wedding cake. It was five tiers with champagne glasses. She made everything from scratch. She did a wonderful job.

Carol Campbell

Coach Houston could not have been a better fit for us. He brings credibility to our staff, and that is important in that we are building from scratch.

Bobby Poss

I'm scratching my head and not sure what to make of it. Blue Lake is not strategically important to anyone.

Patrick Cleary

It has a tendency to scratch.

David Zutler

We're just starting to scratch the surface. The fate and power of e-mail marketing are strong.

David Daniels

This will be an awakening for Palestinians in the New Jersey area. They will have to reconsider their relationships and contacts with the Palestinian Authority. We have to start from scratch building relationships with the new regime.

Aref Assaf

Arsenal jobs are really good. But do you really want to pick up and move to a whole new city and start all over from scratch?

George Riley

We had the smoke in our kitchen under control by 5:10 this morning and guests were back in their rooms by 5:30 a.m., but it was a call-in topic on local radio as recently as an hour ago. My staff and I are just scratching our heads.

Charles Holt

I want to come out every day and work like I'm a free agent coming out of butt-scratch university.

Marcus Washington

They are both teams that play in a competitive league, that have been scratching and clawing for the last month. Those sort of teams are dangerous because of their level of intensity.

Fran Fraschilla

We're scratching our heads over here. The data from day to day seems to go in different directions. Pick your poison.

Donna Van Vlack

We basically cleaned house. We had to start from scratch.

Mike Zadroga

We have players just starting to scratch the surface of their ability. I can't wait to see the film.

Ron Rivera

We start from scratch. Everything has to be on the table.

Sander Levin

I just scratch my head. I enjoy the fact that Toledo gets a major league coaching staff.

Joe Napoli

The beauty of the situation is we were able to find other ways to win, and we were able to scratch it out.

Brian Thornton

Momentum is good when you're at home but we have to make the plays to get the momentum. It doesn't just start right from scratch. You've got to play well and find that surge that's going to generate that momentum and that way it can catch on from the crowd. You're not just going to have it. You're going to have crowd advantage but you've got to make plays to get the crowd involved.

Bobbie Williams

This is one more thing that's keeping people from coming home. Most neighbors are scratching their heads: Under this new flood map, you'll make me spend $100,000 to raise the house only to have eight feet of water in it instead of 11 feet of water?

Ron Chapman

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.

Mary Higgins Clark

Sure that happens. It's hard to tell a kid to go out there and just lose by a little because it goes against everything you teach. I'll tell them just to give me six minutes of hard wrestling and to kick, scratch and fight and do what you can.

Marty Dillon

Whenever you get that lonely feeling, you just head out looking for Sophie. She'll always let you scratch her ears or pet her; it takes care of the loneliness a person has in their heart.

Stanley Plahn

I feel like I won, but I'm going in as the underdog because the results were disputed, ... Until I prove otherwise, that's the situation. This is supposed to be all in fun. I don't want to scratch anyone's eyeballs out. But I'm competitive by nature.

Kelly Monaco

I think he is just scratching the surface. I think he has a lot of qualities. He's intelligent. He has a lot of qualities that fit what we're looking for at the quarterback position. The quarterback position in our offense is like a point guard in basketball. He has to deliver the mail. He has to make others look better.

Greg Robinson

To build from scratch with the price of land (around Durango), it's a big item. And I think that kind of put people off.

Janey Silver