By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed…

“Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I honed my fraud research techniques at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm.”

— Steven Magee

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

— Terrell Owens

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done…

— Joan Jett

“I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pity is her latest tool and she’s honed it to a fine edge.”

— K. Ritz

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

— Ruth Rendell

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working…

— David Crane

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it…

— Keith Barry

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut…

— Stephen King

When COVID came along I honed in on my skills.

— Ruel

“Or did you have your fingernails honed on a whetsone, my darling?”

— Ray Bradbury

The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.

— Ron Kaufman