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• It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Romance, Cooking

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• He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Brother, Should Have, Long

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• The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

  Andre Norton

  Elephants, Doe, Size

  Andre Norton (2015). “Wraiths of Time”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

  John Selden

  Religion, Looks, Mouths

  John Selden (1821). “Selden's table talk”, p.128

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• Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

  Stephen King

  Cutting, Discipline, Meat

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Gossip, Potatoes, Asparagus

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• ... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

  Mimi Pond

  Running, Army, Shoes

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

  Phillip Noyce

  Mean, Thinking, Water

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• You gotta remember: we're musicians we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

  Corey Taylor

  Couple, Crazy, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.

  Craig Childs

  Fall, Creativity, Winter

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• Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
  No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
  But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?
  O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
  Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
  Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
  A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
  To mangle me with that word 'banished'?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mean, Poison

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.149

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• I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

  Joey Fatone

  Fun, Dad, Old School

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

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• I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives. I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

  Emily Alyn Lind

  Blood, Stories, Lines

  "Katee Sackhoff and Emily Alyn Lind Talk THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2: GHOSTS OF GEORGIA, Favorite Horror Movies and Staying in a Haunted House". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Air, People, Trying

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2012.

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• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Powerful, Heart, Cutting

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• Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

  Patti LaBelle

  Anger, Long, Blades

  Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
  Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
  Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
  Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
  And fretting grief the enemy of life;
  All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

  Edmund Spenser

  Grief, Anger, Wrath

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Noble Man, Pairs

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Boxing

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Cutting, Deeper

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.123, Macmillan

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• She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Love You, Leeches, Sometimes

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• I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?" "Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just asked for it back? "No. It just makes sense to keep track of large kitchen knives, so when one goes missing you're not surprised when someone attacks you with it.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Track, Missing, Kitchen

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.132, Harlequin

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• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

  Patrick Ness

  Live Life, Cutting, Order

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• I've lost my mind," Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. "I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

  Lynsay Sands

  Morning, Twilight, Kitchen

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