Cutting Quotes · Page 38

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of…

— Aristotle Onassis

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser,…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum…

— Max Planck

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

— Ray Kurzweil

You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

— Bill Cosby

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire,…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

— Wendy Kaminer

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

— Wendell Berry

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut…

— C. S. Lewis

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more…

— Jil Sander

A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

I was told that going to college wouldn't be good for my career, but I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower…

— Claire Danes

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I…

— Ramsey Campbell

If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos,…

— Matthieu Ricard

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange…

— Bernie Worrell

Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are…

— Bernd Heinrich

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,

— Count Basie

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that…

— William Weld

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I…

— Michael Bloomberg

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out…

— Keith Miller

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her…

— Charles de Lint

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no…

— Mark Driscoll

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

— James Schuyler

Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know...take care of yourself.

— Ginuwine

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

— Brian Eno

So I have been asked a lot to do one of these so here it is... I will be open if you…

— Anonymous

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why…

— Richard D. Wolff

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

— Chris Tucker

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

— Frederick Lenz

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which…

— Cesare Lombroso

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the…

— Jason Sellards

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get…

— Adam Gidwitz

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.

— Tarik Shah

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her…

— Dorothy Parker

Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat…

— Mike G

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!

— Jennifer Lynch

The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

— Frederic Chopin

“In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing…

— Pamela Erens