Cutting Quotes · Page 61

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's…

— George Horace Lorimer

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with…

— Elijah Wood

Don't cut it," he said gruffly. "But no one'll see my tattoos if I don't." "Wear it up." -Dimitri, Rose, Dimitri

— Richelle Mead

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

— Amity Shlaes

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

— Alan King

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

— Yanis Varoufakis

“You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.”

— Cheryl Rainfield

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on…

— Henry Adams

My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so…

— Olivia Thirlby

No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has…

— Jonathan Messinger

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to…

— William Safire

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on…

— James McAvoy

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude…

— James M. Buchanan

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air…

— Walt Kelly

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be…

— Anonymous

If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world.…

— Timothy Dalton

It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.

— Cassandra Clare

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

— Aziz Ansari

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.”

— Christopher Moore

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to…

— Aziz Ansari

Its a hurt so consuming that the pain of the blade just doesn't penetrate for me anymore

— Jamie Leah

Barack Obama is pretty similar to the person you see in public, at press conferences. He's a little saltier, a little more…

— Jonathan Chait

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of…

— Chris Christie

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

— Zach Wamp

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

— Thomas P. Campbell

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off…

— Max Tundra

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

— Jon Stewart

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

— Joan Larkin

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or…

— Tom Stoppard

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around…

— Michael Palin

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

— C. S. Lewis

I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go…

— Kellyanne Conway

I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.

— Jonathan Van Ness

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to…

— Steven Millhauser

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

— Mayim Bialik

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

— Kevin Drum

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to…

— Alanis Morissette

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making…

— Gordon Matta-Clark