Cutting Quotes - Page 119

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

Mostly [Eva Braun criticize Adolf Hitler] about his clothes, the cut and the fit of his clothes. This was an ongoing issue between them.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.

Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War and a desire by the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) to protect its comfortable life style in a world that is changing rapidly.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.