Cutting Quotes - Page 9

• A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

  Judith Schaechter

  Glasses, Seductive, Temptation

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• You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Giving, Needs

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• Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Science, Knives

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

  Al Gore

  Meat, Vegetarian, Climate Change

  "Al Gore Goes Vegan" By Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

  Tim Conway

  Hair, Looks, Cost

  FaceBook post by Tim Conway from Mar 11, 2016

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• To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

  Christina Stead

  Book, House, Tree

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Fundamentals, Facts, Veteran

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Organization, Two, People

  Institutional Investor Magazine, September 2001.

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• Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.

  Augusto De Luca

  Photography, Giving Up, Needs

  "Augusto De Luca, Spaces and Sculptures". L'Œil de la Photographie, loeildelaphotographie.com. March 17, 2018.

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• Hours of research can cut months of field work.

  E. Lee Spence

  Research, Fields, Months

  "Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the 'Real Rhett Butler' & Other Revelations". Book by Dr. E. Lee Spence, 1995.

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• Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

  Heloise

  Eye, Cooking, Tea

  Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”

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• I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Writing, Childhood, Age

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• You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

  Lisa Unger

  Family, Names, Ties

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.617, Crown

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

  Celia Fremlin

  Love You, Trouble, Enjoy

  Celia Fremlin (2014). “The Spider-Orchid”, p.42, Faber & Faber

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• People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

  Annabelle Wallis

  People, Risk, Comfort

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• The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.

  Tim Montgomerie

  Running, Jobs, Class

  "Can David Cameron make Tories the new party of social justice?" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2015.

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• Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Character, Television, Emotion

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• I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

  Harrison Ford

  Working It, Plans, Feels

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• I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Directors, Needs, Film

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• Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Children, Creative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.

  Joe Biden

  Fall, Republican, Made

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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