I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

— Pete Sampras

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I…

— Kiki Dee

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

— Antonia Fraser

My wrestling is sharp, my striking is crispy and my ground is killer.

— Marlon Vera

The important thing is always to be sharp and score when the opportunity arises.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

The idea of being in control for the sake of control, is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing, you…

— Tina Fey

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

— Aisling Bea

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you…

— Cynthia Ozick

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

— St. Jerome

“Better than a sharp stick in the eye.”

— James Williams

“Sharp like a spoon, that one. Anyway,”

— Ethan Cross

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is…

— John Wycliffe

We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an…

— Gever Tulley

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

— Billie Whitelaw

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

— Stephen Vincent Benet