Knife Quotes

720 Knife quotes by 522 unique authors

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
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and… — Eugenio Montale
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable… — Laozi
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. — Zoroaster
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce
I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and… — Erin Gray
Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. — Lloyd Grove
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. — Emmanuel Jal
Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he… — Steven Gerrard
A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. — Ella Leya
I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles. — Jasmine Guinness
Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a… — Irving Kristol
It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the 6 person, tag… — Chris Jericho
When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't… — Malcolm X
Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink… — William Ernest Henley
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! — Mark Kingwell

Who Wrote These Knife Quotes

522 authors contributed a total of 720 Knife Quotes, led by these top contributors: