Knives Quotes · Page 13

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an…

— Dean Koontz

Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.

— Dick Williams

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased…

— Ovid

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

— Terry Pratchett

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out…

— Redd Foxx

“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!”

— James Goldman

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are…

— Ernest Hemingway

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And…

— Harry Chapin

“There were two knives. One you had stuck through the painting, and the other was slitting your wrist. Remember that? Remember how…

— Sarah A. Denzil

We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict…

— Jeaniene Frost

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around… I want love to…

— Jack White

Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room.…

— Janet Evanovich

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor.…

— Anne Stuart

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might…

— Miranda July

“Wakiwa na suti nzito za kijani na madoa meusi (‘Ghillie Suits’) kwa ajili ya kupigania porini; Vijana wa Tume walikuwa na kofia…

— Enock Maregesi

Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that…

— Hermann Hesse

Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made…

— Holly Black

And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a…

— Robert Boyle

I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War…he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration…

— Paul Douglas

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be…

— Malcolm X

I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did,…

— Andrea Dworkin

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

— John Kruk

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.”

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Bob Dylan

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

— Harry S. Truman

Go ahead stabbing knives into other people's backs, but dont forget to watch your own

— Aisha Momin

Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding…

— Veronica Roth

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

— W. C. Fields

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull…

— Van Heflin

You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing…

— Brian Regan

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was…

— Janet Flanner

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

— John Selden

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

— Sue Grafton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

— Joel Edgerton