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Blades Quotes

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

Hermann Goring
Razors, Aviation, Blades

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Dickens
Hurt, Complaining, Blades

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Yukio Mishima
Flesh, Sun, Blades
Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven
Knives, World, Blades

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

Ray Mears
Blunt, Blades, Dangerous

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

Robert Jordan
Branches, Saplings, Blades
Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.352, Macmillan

We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

Anthony Hopkins
Believe, Shadow, Blades Of Grass

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether

E. W. Bullinger
Animal, Tradition, Blades
E. W. Bullinger “Commentary on Revelation”, Kregel Publications

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

Sapphire
Angel, Blades, Grass
Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

Natalie Goldberg
Way, Tough, Blades
Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

Pablo Picasso
Razors, Danger, Blades

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Alice Walker
Fear Of Death, Blades, Grass
Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.91, The New Press

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

Walter Savage Landor
Hands, Bears, Blades
Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal
Errors, Knives, Blades
Rene Daumal (2004). “Mount Analogue”, p.37, The Overlook Press

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Ouida
Cutting, Knives, Blades
Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Jacqueline Carey
Hate, Two Sides, Blades
Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

Playing the assholes in the movie is fun.

Will Arnett
Fun, Glory, Blades
"Interview: Will Arnett and Amy Poehler". chud.com, March 29, 2007.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

James M. Barrie
Weapons, Blades, Temper
James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Elias Hicks
Blades, Grass, Blades Of Grass

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

Brion James
Forever, Blade Runner, Blades

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Bhartrhari
Money, Virtue, Blades

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

Lewis Carroll
Two, Blades, Left
'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 1

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Henry Ward Beecher
Lying, Needs, Blades
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

Simone de Beauvoir
Want, Blades, Grass
"All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Samuel Johnson
Country, Blades, Grass
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.22

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