Knives famous quotes

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Cutting #Knives #Tree

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
-- Abraham Verghese

#Cancer #Taken #Knives

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
-- Alan Alda

#Hands #Knives #Long

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
-- Alan Watts

#Buddhism #Hands #Knives

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Expression #Knives #Needs

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife
-- Aldous Huxley

#Knives #Apples #Steel

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Hands #Knives #People

It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#Knives #Kitchen #Hot

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo

#Knives #Way #Sides

The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Cutting #Knives #Hair

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.
-- Anais Nin

#Knives #Want #Worship

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
-- Andre Norton

#Knives #Elephants #Doe

I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Country #Believe #Knives

When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature.
-- Andrei Chikatilo

#Mistake #Knives #Relief

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
-- Andrew Tudor

#Knives #Play #Hollywood

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.
-- Anne Stuart

#Hate #Hands #Knives

A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.
-- Ansen Dibell

#Cutting #Knives #Able

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Food #Knives

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Wall #Impact #Knives

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
-- Arman

#Knives #Design #Kitchen

I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.
-- Aron Ralston

#Knives #Firsts #Tasks

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#Love You #Knives #Leeches

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

#Knives #Twists #Yeah

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

#Powerful #Gun #Knives

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

#Memories #Knives #Grows

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
-- Baroness Orczy

#Simple #Knives #Necks

...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.
-- Barry Lyga

#Hands #Knives #Long

I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Doors #Knives #Kicking

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Hands #Knives #Secret

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Cutting #Thinking #Knives

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

#Gun #Knives #Guy

Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)
-- Bill Buford

#Years #Knives #Bye

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.
-- Bill Buford

#School #Cutting #Knives

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
-- Bill Viola

#Running #Knives #Doctors

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

#Wine #Knives #Bread

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
-- Blake Morrison

#Writing #Editing #Knives

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cutting #Knives #People

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

#Knives #Wells #Sooner Or Later

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.
-- Bobby Flay

#Knives #Kitchen #Tools

Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.
-- Brian Regan

#Cutting #Knives #Comedian

You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives!
-- Brian Regan

#Knives #Two #Sandwiches

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
-- Bruno Schulz

#Cutting #Years #Knives

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

#Cutting #Knives #Feelings

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
-- C.J. Langenhoven

#Knives #World #Blades

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Hurt #Self Harm #Knives

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

#Self Harm #Knives #Needs

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
-- Cat Cora

#Cutting #Thinking #Knives

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Knives #Use #Want

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.
-- Charlemagne

#Pride #Knives #Differences

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!
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Knives #Poison #Arson

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Order #Knives #Honey

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

#Knives #Mad #Wife

It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.
-- Charlie Day

#Knives #Romance #Exhibitions

It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the 6 person, tag team table match, I see how you look at me. You could cut the sexual tension between is with a knife. So I just want to let you know no matter the outcome, I'm always available to give to a healthy dose of Vitamin C.
-- Chris Jericho

#Team #Cutting #Knives

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

#Army #Knives #Giving

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Men #Knives #Naked

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

#Life #Song #Knives

The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
-- D.T. Suzuki

#Mistake #Cutting #Knives

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.
-- Damian Marley

#Knives #Stronger #Killing

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards… the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
-- Dan Wieden

#Agency #Knives #Giants

Remember, it is never the knife's fault.
-- Daniel Boulud

#Knives #Faults #Remember

This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails
-- Daniel Defoe

#Dark #Knives #Axes

Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
-- Dave Mustaine

#Fighting #Years #Knives

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

#Successful #Knives #Criticism

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.
-- David Lange

#Knives #Scar

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.
-- David Nicholls

#Moving #Book #Knives

[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.
-- Denis Johnson

#Doctors #Knives #Drug

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
-- Desmond Tutu

#Cutting #Knives #Religion

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

#Pain #Gun #Knives

Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.
-- Dick Williams

#Knives #Fundamentals #Eating

Music, the knife without a hilt,
-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Knives

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Cutting #Knives #Pie

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
-- E. J. Holub

#Football #Fighting #Knives

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
-- Ed Koch

#New York #Law #Knives

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

#Love #Sleep #Knives

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Knives #May #Sometimes

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.
-- Eli Siegel

#Mean #Cutting #Knives

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
-- Ella Leya

#Knives #Tongue #Heal

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
-- Elsa Maxwell

#Character #Successful #Knives

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.
-- Emily Alyn Lind

#Blood #Knives #Stories

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!
-- Emily Dickinson

#Life #Knives #Culprit

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
-- Emmanuel Jal

#Gun #Knives #Insecurity

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.
-- Emraan Hashmi

#Thinking #Knives #Appearance

I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'
-- Erin Gray

#Knives #Drawing #Body

My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.
-- Etgar Keret

#Mother #Knives #Stuff

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
-- Eve Merriam

#Running #Knives #Skins

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.
-- Famke Janssen

#Knives #Would Be #Scared

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Knives #Wind #Desire

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.
-- Francis Collins

#Hands #Knives #Littles

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.
-- Frank Bruno

#Athlete #Knives #Trying

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
-- Frank Herbert

#Attitude #Princess #Knives

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.
-- Frank Yerby

#Writing #Cutting #Knives

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

#Love Is #Knives #Plunge

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.
-- Gary Lineker

#Knives #Boss #Answers

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
-- Gavin Esler

#Hands #Knives #Crowns

To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Cutting #Knives #Two

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
-- George Canning

#Blow #Order #Knives

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).
-- George Johnson

#Thinking #Knives #Games

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.
-- George Orwell

#Sarcastic #Successful #Knives

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Men #Knives #Giving