Knife Quotes

720 Knife quotes by 522 unique authors

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is… — Peter Guber
When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like. — Famke Janssen
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon
The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to… — Saul Bellow
Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with. — Rachel Hartman
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't… — Bill Viola
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused! — Christine Lavin
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is… — Rory Miller
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take… — Wovoka
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;… — Sylvia Plath
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that… — Eli Siegel
Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. — Damian Marley
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. — Teresa Giudice
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each… — Joaquin Miller
It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife. — Alanis Morissette
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… — D. H. Lawrence
People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway. — Lady Gaga
I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would… — Tom Colicchio
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it… — Simon Cowell
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a… — Roald Dahl
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did. — Bobby Darin
There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast… — Jenny Eclair

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