Blades Quotes - Page 7

• The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.

  David Rees

  People, Pockets, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

  Dennis L. McKiernan

  Dream, Dark, Awake

  Dennis L. McKiernan (2006). “Once Upon a Summer Day”, p.318, Penguin

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• I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Blade Runner

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Ambitious, Passionate

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wall, Flames, Hands

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

  Helen Keller

  Baby, Curves, Hands

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.19, Om Books International

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• My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

  Philip K. Dick

  Creative, Blade Runner, Justified

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• When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to seep into your work. And when you give yourself permission to explore the grottiest bits of your psyche (like Louis CK) (who totally stole that move from me) (not really), to exaggerate the edge of the rustiest blades of your IRL mind, you'll occasionally come up with something that holds real power.

  Roy Kesey

  Father, Real, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.

  Flume

  Writing, Blade Runner, Want

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.

  Denzel Washington

  Guy, Blade Runner, Facts

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Vampire, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

  Simon Hughes

  Men, Worry, Healthy

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• How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

  John Kremer

  Grass, Thousand, Noisy

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Twilight, Curves

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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

  Edward Hoagland

  Love, Sleep, Knives

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• Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wind Blowing, Matter, Fields

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

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• The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Blood, Feminist

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Numbers, May, Cubes

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.192

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• I have always liked knives. Then somebody gave me one. Then somebody gave me another one. Then I liked having them and started buying them. I started finding ones I liked, ones with funky blades.

  Tim Duncan

  Knives, Buying, Funky

  Interview with Dan Patrick (1998), first published in Pete Sampras "Outtakes: Dan Patrick" edited by John Hassan, www.nydailynews.com. May 10, 2000.

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• Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are”

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• When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Fighting, Fate

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• Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

  Charlize Theron

  Blade Runner, Way, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Law, Miracle

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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