Knives Quotes

Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.