Knife Quotes

720 Knife quotes by 522 unique authors

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress. — Malcolm X
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their… — Andrea Gibson
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the… — Sun Yat-sen
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork. — Irene Nemirovsky
The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the… — Mors Kochanski
The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment… — Sam Vaknin
But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife… — Jude Morgan
We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't… — Pat Condell
Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife — Aldous Huxley
I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had… — Aron Ralston
People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a… — Marcus Samuelsson
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask… — Bill Watterson
The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea… — Katherine Catmull
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose.… — Gillian Flynn
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my… — Janet Fitch
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

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