Knives Quotes · Page 9

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

— Gavin Esler

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

“Words were his weapon of choice, and he used them like knives.”

— Sydney Landon

“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

... 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

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

— Horace Kephart

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

— John Lubbock

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

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids…

— Chris O'Donnell

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

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple…

— William Styron

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ 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

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not…

— Veronica Roth

“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

Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

— Anonymous

The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition.

— Charles Tomlinson

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

— Anonymous

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

— Neil Gaiman

I would never hit a woman - even if she had a knife or a stutter.

— Anthony Jeselnik