Knives Quotes

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

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

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

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

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

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

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

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife

I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

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.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

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

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

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

With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

I was known for throwing knives.