Knife Quotes

720 quotes by 565 authors

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had… — Mario Batali
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. — Louise Brooks
I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would. — Criss Angel
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. — Jack Handey
The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their… — Peter HÃ¸eg
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a… — Tommy Bolt
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole… — George Canning
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred… — Malcolm X
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife,… — Henry David Thoreau
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it. — Banksy
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could... — Wassily Kandinsky
1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy — Yelawolf
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use… — Wernher von Braun
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party. — Morris Bender
Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle. — Bill Fitch

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