Cutting Quotes

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.