Knife Quotes

720 Knife quotes by 522 unique authors

I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife… — Frank O'Hara
To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like. — Sarah Palin
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker. — Arman
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife. — Hunter S. Thompson
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. — John Cheever
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee. — Unknown Author
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a… — Graeme Le Saux
God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade. — C.J. Langenhoven
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In… — Adrienne Rich
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.… — William Christopher Handy
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps… — Rita Dove
Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars. — Robert Jordan
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late. — Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. — Steven Brust
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring… — Jack Handey
Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a… — John Speed
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order… — Molly Ivins
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the… — Lucy Parsons
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison,… — John Owen
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could… — Gordon Parks
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the… — Ruth Reichl
What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood. — Alain Robbe-Grillet
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar.… — Maya Lin
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. — T.E. Lawrence

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