Scalpels Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a… — Tommy Bolt
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter.… — Ronald Reagan
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. — Diana Butler Bass
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, — Michael Ondaatje
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method… — Gerry Spence
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. — Jay Samit
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is… — Sue Monk Kidd
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort
Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this â€˜sensitive words glossary,â€™ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which… — Murong Xuecun
Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club. — Matt Chandler
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. — Patricia Cornwell
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when… — Gustave Flaubert
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work… — Jonathan Davis
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. — Ed Koch

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