Knives Quotes

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.