Blades Quotes - Page 18

• What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

  Ilona Andrews

  Broken, Luck, Tough

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.236, Penguin

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• They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

  David Almond

  Angel, Wings, One Day

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• Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Loyalty, Eye, Giving

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• Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.' Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blue, Flames, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1103, Simon and Schuster

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• A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

  Arvo Part

  Flower, Important, Sound

  "Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale". Documentary, DVD, 2002.

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Family, Wife, Steel

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• The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

  David Pogue

  Book, Razors, Kindles

  "The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.156, Penguin

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• When I was a kid, Blade Runner was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  Tahmoh Penikett

  Dad, Kids, Boys

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• They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friday, Laughter, Kids

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 21, 2005.

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• "Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."

  Jacob Lawrence

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.

  James Berardinelli

  Dedication, Blade Runner, Style

  Review of "Blade Runner", www.reelviews.net. 1982.

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• I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Cat, Nba

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Block, Believe, Men

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• Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

  Laozi

  Gold, Jade, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Wisdom, Important

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Kitchen, Looks

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Moving, Cutting

  Ben Lerner (2016). “No Art: Poems”, p.114, Granta Books

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• Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Way, Tough, Grass

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Games, Enemy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.743, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "A-League talking points: Melbourne City fail another test of character" by Jonathan Howcroft, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2015.

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