Knives Quotes - Page 10

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.

It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.