Knives Quotes

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith

After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory. “I think we have a problem, Dmitri.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)

People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

So you guys fought some Daimons, huh? Wish I could. Wulf goes nuts if I even pick up a butter knife. (Chris)

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

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

The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.