A Quote by Howard Jacobson

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

Howard Jacobson

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Howard Jacobson
British - Novelist
Born: August 25, 1942

The first thing I do when I'm shopping is touch everything to see if it's itchy. I remember my mom used to put me in the itchiest clothes ever, and I was traumatized by it, so I won't wear anything itchy now.

Kourtney Kardashian

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Mo Rocca

I'll just have itchy, watery eyes!

Jeff Foxworthy

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

Levon Helm

I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.

Amy Poehler

If I'm off the road, I get itchy feet. It's my work, my job.

Engelbert Humperdinck

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

Lily James

When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.

Paolo Nutini

I know it's hard when guys leave the game. They're sitting there analyzing, and they're getting itchy.

Gilbert Arenas

I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin.

Ross Butler

There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

Zooey Deschanel

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Brian Eno

We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.