Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels…

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting…

— Ronald Reagan

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on…

— Philip Sington

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then…

— Ben Eine

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

— Vernor Vinge

I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook…

— Gerry Spence

Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to…

— Denton Cooley

I was a bit of a strange kid in some ways. I had microscopes, scalpels.

— Tony Hadley

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

— Jay Samit

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for…

— Stephen Batchelor

If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are…

— Tenzin Palmo

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

— Michael Caine

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for…

— Tommy Bolt