Cutters Quotes

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

Ambrose Bierce

Lying, Writing, Target

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Peter De Vries

Diction, Cookies, Shapes

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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Meryl Streep

Life, Success, Stay Strong

"Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" by Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

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Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

John Mica

Tsa, Shoes, Diapers

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob August Riis

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Bill Walsh

Inspirational, Sports, Gratitude

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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Adam Baldwin

Watches, Cookies, Stories

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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Bill Walsh

Lame, Compliment, Praise

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Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

David McCord

Moving, Islands, Rocks

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It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Ray Bradbury

Real, Cutting, Men

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

Henny Youngman

Funny, Jobs, Humor

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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

Prayer, Heart, Blow

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That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life." "So?" "So I'm not a normal boy.

Ally Carter

Boys, Peeking, Pieces

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Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

Helene Hanff

Mother, Knives, People

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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Common Sense, Dying, Stones

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, 1985.

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The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

Mean, Ignorant, Giants

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I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

Kelly Clarkson

New York, Wall, Texas

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A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

Nolan Bushnell

America, Culture, Cookies

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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Meryl Streep

Acceptance, People, Trying

"Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" By Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

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The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

Dick Cheney

Cities, Groups, Nuclear

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...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Chris Crutcher

Educational, Heart, Men

Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

Ken Kesey

Country, Hurt, Home

Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

Lauren Oliver

Children, Taken, Darkness

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.8, Harper Collins

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Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

Gordon Korman

Crazy, Artist, Feet

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I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

Mary Roach

Fighting, Mind, Listening

Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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