Knives Quotes · Page 7

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

— Lewis Carroll

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

— J.R. Ward

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife…

— Judy Sheindlin

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

— Andre Norton

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

— Julie Garwood

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

— Josh Sundquist

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

— James Gosling

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.…

— Helen Fisher

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread…

— Tommy Bolt

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

— George Herbert

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making…

— Malcolm X

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it…

— Henry David Thoreau

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for…

— Robert Farrar Capon

I absolutely cannot live without my set of kitchen knives - I would be completely lost without them.

— Monica Galetti

I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I…

— Tobe Hooper

“He runs his eye along the row of knives in their racks, the cleavers for splitting bones. He picks one up, looks…

— Hilary Mantel

We’re not dead yet.” – Sundown “Yet is the operative word. If that’s all that’s in the way, I’ll kill you and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a…

— John F. Kerry

I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever,…

— Emily Alyn Lind

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

— Justin Halpern

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon,…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's…

— Lorenz Hart

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Hermann Hesse

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She…

— Hans Christian Andersen

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and…

— Pablo Neruda

We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that…

— John Brunner

The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just…

— Sam Vaknin

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,

— Philip Larkin

“Glad I can trust the two of you with steak knives. Let's eat.”

— Elissa Sussman

“Don’t give me your knives. Don’t give up. Don’t you dare give up.”

— Jennifer Estep

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

— Suzanne Collins

Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

— Barbara

You shower me with words made of knives, whenever you look at me I wish I was her.

— Adele

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

— Banksy

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

— Robin Hobb