Sharp Knives Quotes

• Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Hurt, Cutting, Knives

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

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Knives, Drawing

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

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Knives, Giving

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.805, Bantam

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Cutting

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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• I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

  Martin Yan

  Knives, Cooking, Tools

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• The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Hunting, Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage

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• Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

  Veronica Roth

  Knives, Leaving, Divergent

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

  Dana Gould

  Memories, Knives, Pumpkin

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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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• The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Fall, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.160, Random House

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• A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.

  Nick Morgan

  Jobs, Cutting, Knives

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• No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

  Stephen King

  Artist, Knives, Names

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

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• Movement from Brenda grabbed Thomas's attention. He looked to see her drop the knife away from Minho and step back, absently wiping the small trace of blood there on her pants. "I really would've killed you, ya know," she said in a slightly scratchy voice. Almost husky. "Charge Jorge again and I'll sever an artery." Minho wiped at his small wound with his thumb, then looked at the bright red smear. "That's one sharp knife. Makes me like you more.

  James Dashner

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.165, Delacorte Press

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

  Simone Elkeles

  Knives, Needs, Alex

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Beautiful, Pain, Home

  Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (1981). “Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales”, Puffin

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