Knives Quotes

661 quotes by 478 authors

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… — Charles Dickens
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his… — Charles Dickens
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party. — Morris Bender
Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle. — Bill Fitch
My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your… — Johnny Depp
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle… — William Shakespeare
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. — Sally Jenkins
You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife — Unknown Author
Run from a knife and rush a gun. — Jimmy Hoffa
Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him. — Hassan Nasrallah
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find… — Unknown Author
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. — Katharine Hepburn
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs — James Gosling
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — Blake Morrison
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget. — Unknown Author

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