Knives Quotes · Page 8

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right...

— Bryan Adams

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

— Conrad Aiken

If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

— Patience Strong

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

— Meg Cabot

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

— Rebecca De Mornay

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.

— Devon Monk

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

— Gavin Esler

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept…

— Charles Baudelaire

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire…

— John Cheever

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't…

— Maria V. Snyder

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

— Richard Russo

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing…

— Ray Bradbury

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

— Christine Lavin

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with…

— Vera Farmiga

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through…

— Adam DeVine

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year…

— Kajol

We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know…

— Max Black

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped…

— Tamora Pierce

Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron,…

— Nalini Singh

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating…

— Jude Morgan

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all…

— Nick Hornby

It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be…

— John Speed

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all…

— Kiersten White

Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the…

— John Dee

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…

— Charles Dickens

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains…

— Melinda Clarke

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm…

— Frank Sinatra

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

— L. M. Boyd

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

— E. J. Holub

Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

— Aya Nakahara

“Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood?”

— Donald Gorman

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

— Wolfgang Puck

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

— Anonymous

“Sharp knives, of course, are the secret of a successful restaurant.”

— George Orwell

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

— Anonymous