Knives Quotes

661 Knives quotes by 478 unique authors

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
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can… — Khalil Gibran
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
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
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might… — Laurie Penny
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles. — Steve Guttenberg
Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if… — Conan O'Brien
I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way,… — Melinda Clarke
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
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. — Jonathan Swift
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

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