Knives Quotes - Page 2

• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

  Edward Hoagland

  Love, Sleep, Two

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• I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

  Bobby Flay

  Kitchen, Tools, Use

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• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  Keith Richards

  Home, Fighting, Trying

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

  Ruth Rendell

  Jealousy, Details

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Oct 30, 2011

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• They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Eating, Forks

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.373

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• If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Rose, Gardening

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

  Barbara

  Powerful, Gun, Weapons

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• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hands, Two, Divinity

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (13), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

  Rick Riordan

  Evil, Magic, Tools

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• I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

  Wolfgang Puck

  "Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen + The Joys of HSN". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. May 28, 2010.

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• The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.

  Christine Feehan

  Real, Heart, Men

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Savage Nature”, p.138, Penguin

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, Ocean, Glasses

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• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  Pablo Neruda

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Hands, Mind

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.418, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Want, Knees

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• All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

  Philip Larkin

  Mind, Drawers, Lays

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Pigs

  Journal, Feb. 1855

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• I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Zero, Years

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• At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Roots, Cooks

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• I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

  Stevie Smith

  Heart, Ifs

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.148, New Directions Publishing

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• I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

  Meir Kahane

  Enemy, Election, Reincarnation

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• This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Heart, Long

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Stuff, Ninja

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

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