Knives Quotes - Page 9

• People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  People, Secret, Needs

  "Secrets of a Skinny Chef" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

  David Coverdale

  Successful, Criticism, Dine

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• I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.

  Aron Ralston

  Tasks, Able, Firsts

  "How I snapped bone and cut off my arm, by US climber" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Reality, Men, Dollars

  Song: A Country Boy Can Survive

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• Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Cutting

  Song: I'm On Fire, Album: Born In The U.S.A., 1984

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• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  Charles Frazier

  Beautiful, Father, School

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Kitchen, Looks, Wonder

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

  Seungsahn

  Cutting, Mouths, Want

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• I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Men, Together

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

  Malcolm X

  Healing, America, Ethnicity

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• The tongue, the Chinese say,
  is like a sharp knife:
  it kills
  without drawing blood.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Drawing, Chinese

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cake, Mind, Experience

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

  Laozi

  Money, Heart, People

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• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Training, Doe

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Sadness, Guitar, Shoes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Fall, Thinking

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Want

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• Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, Television, Half

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• Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

  Robert Jordan

  Girl, Brother, Kissing

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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• Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope.

  Stacey D'Erasmo

  Son, Wicked, Woven

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• Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It’s also where the knives are kept.

  Laurie Penny

  Girl, Thinking, Kitchen

  FaceBook post by Laurie Penny from Mar 08, 2016

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• Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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