.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. Henry James
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 Lea
So you can see here in this case of mine where God helped me out. I had been living for God and working in the church some time before I come to the army. So I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that hard battle; for the bushes were shot up all around me and I never got a scratch. Alvin York
Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.' Orlando Bloom
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it. Kurt Busch