Razors Quotes - Page 9

• C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

  Brian Kernighan

  Tools, Program, Mess

  Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1999). “The Practice of Programming”, p.71, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

  Francis Crick

  Simplicity, Tools, Use

  "What Mad Pursuit". Book by Francis Crick, 1988.

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• There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

  King C. Gillette

  Travel, Heart, Safety

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• Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Design, Guy

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• You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night,
  Scared at the thought of kissing razors

  Vic Fuentes

  Kissing, Night, Wake Up

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• Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were.

  David Foster Wallace

  Successful, Happy Life, Parent

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

  Andy Biersack

  Lonely, Cutting, Blades

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• Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

  Alexander Stubb

  Needs, Should, Rhetoric

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk. It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.

  Al Aronowitz

  Cutting, Voice, Evil

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

  Terence Stamp

  Film, My Favorite, Genes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Fall

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• What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Light, People, Coffins

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

  Yoko Ono

  Mirrors, Broken, Flutes

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Goal, Despair, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

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• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Fun, Next

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• The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Teeth, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

  Tana French

  Couple, Cutting, Forever

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

  Darynda Jones

  Cake, Desire, Dozen

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

  James Joyce

  Mirrors, Bucks, Mulligans

  Ulysses (1922)

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• Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

  Jacques Ellul

  Faith, People, Forever

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World”, p.112, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 01, 2017

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