A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Come here,” she says. “No, you come here.” “I said it first.” “Rock paper scissors.” “No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors… — Jean Patou Copy Share Image
We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut… — Terry Hill Copy Share Image
“Long before there were digital photos and digital manipulation, there were scissors. A simple pair of scissors could remove history, remove the… — Mike Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If you really want space on public transport you should carry some pornography from the 1970s and a pair of children's safety… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
