Axe Quotes

131 quotes by 110 authors

Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like,… — Sloane Crosley
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein
I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream. — Marc Jacobs
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. — Paula Poundstone
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. — Sylvester Stallone
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading,… — Haven Kimmel
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the… — Aldo Leopold
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson
The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going… — Paul Quarrington
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being… — Rumi
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It seems to me that we canâ€™t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we… — Sharon Creech
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs… — Karel Capek
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their… — Andrzej Sapkowski
He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such… — Hermann Hesse
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J M Coetzee

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