And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood…

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to…

— George Nakashima

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is…

— Gabriela Mistral

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very…

— Gibran Khalil Gibran

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are…

— Ridley Pearson

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

— Ray Bradbury

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave…

— William Cobbett

Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?" I figured she…

— Rick Riordan

This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an…

— Jennifer Estep

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it…

— Ann Aguirre

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name…

— Bob Dylan

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

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if…

— Antoine Fuqua

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by…

— Steven Pinker

It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

— Thomas Jefferson