Knives Quotes - Page 17

• I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

  Christian Serratos

  Cutting, Years, Kitchen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can offer you only: this world like a knife

  John Berryman

  World, Offers, I Can

  John Berryman (2014). “The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

  Sharon Tate

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

  John Cheever

  Blood, House, World

  TheWapshot Chronicle ch. 36 (1957)

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• I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

  Micah Lexier

  Cutting, Thursday, Recycling

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Lying, Warrior, One Day

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, Sticks, Helping

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• My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

  Ethel Waters

  Mother, Father, One Day

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• ... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Hilarity, Enjoy

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• Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

  George Gilder

  Children, Ghetto, School

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.132, Regnery Publishing

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• Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

  Mark Twain

  Perfect, Teeth, Faults

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

  Abel Ferrara

  Balance, Trying, Needs

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.

  Lorenz Hart

  Thinking, Rolling, Actors

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• [The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

  Justin Halpern

  Girl, Fall, Emotional

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• A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.

  Nick Morgan

  Jobs, Cutting, Ponies

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• Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Complicated, Never Trust, Forks

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.151, Penguin

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• Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

  Ardal O'Hanlon

  Running, Fun, Men

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• We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

  Max Black

  Children, Cutting, Fire

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• I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

  Jack White

  Fighting, Dying, Twists

  Song: Love Interruption, Album: Blunderbuss, 2012

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• My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

  Sue Grafton

  Tables, Jars, Mayonnaise

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

  Tobe Hooper

  Couple, Nice, Years

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

  Meera

  Jewels, Knows, Felt

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• I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Mother, Special, Trying

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• If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

  Robert Jordan

  Horse, Trying, Ribs

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.607, Macmillan

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• Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

  Geri Halliwell

  Cutting, Rolling, Lips

  Song: Passion, Album: Passion, 2005

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