Knives Quotes - Page 20

• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Trying, Use

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• What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Mean, Power

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• Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Book, Romance

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• "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Air, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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• The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

  Tim Cahill

  Sharks, Swim, Use

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• No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

  Franz Grillparzer

  War, Cutting, Class

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• I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

  Leonid Afremov

  Careers, Oil, Long

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• I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

  W. C. Fields

  Income, Balls, Cigar

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• In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Cutting, Two

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter Five, "Oshima", 2002.

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• So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Selfish, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.327

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• From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
  what grain will be saved?
  My son, believe me, nothing remains,
  Only adult toil,
  the furrow of fate in the palm.
  Only toil,
  Nothing more.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Believe, Fate, Son

  "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.

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• Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

  Josh Sundquist

  Fighting, Emotion, Logic

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• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

  Mason Cooley

  May, Retreat, Plastic

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• Did you see those Iraqis making that pilgrimage slashing their foreheads with knives and whipping their backs with chains. See, when Saddam Hussein was around they weren't allowed to make that pilgrimage. If they tried that with Saddam Hussein, he would have slashed their foreheads with knives and whipped their backs with chains.

  Jay Leno

  Hussein, Chains, Whipping

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• If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Girl, Learning, Blow

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• The cool blade
  Severs between coolness, apple-rind
  Compelling a recognition.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Apples, Fruit, Recognition

  Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• . . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

  Robert Purvis

  Book, School, Sight

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• Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

  Gary Lineker

  Boss, Answers, Footballer

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• The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fire, Tsa, Three

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• Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Character, Successful, Important

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• I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

  Stevie Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

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• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  Mary Astor

  Beautiful, Sex, Cutting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.

  Brian Regan

  Cutting, Comedian, Spoons

  Source: mauitime.com

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• I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Doors, Kicking, Capers

  Source: www.gq.com

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