Knife Quotes

720 quotes by 522 authors

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife,… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do… — Caitlin Moran
A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the… — Ansen Dibell
But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not,… — Patrick Ness
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be… — Bill Buford
It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right... — Bryan Adams
Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess. — Dick Williams
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner… — Marcel Proust
If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice… — Seungsahn
Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife… — J C Ryle
There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight… — Lady Gaga
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors… — Kara Walker
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp… — Hafez
A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't… — Masaharu Morimoto
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me… — Redd Foxx
The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade.… — Keith Richards
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to… — Mark Twain
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and… — Ernest Hemingway
Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a… — William Shakespeare

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