Scissors Quotes
80 quotes by 74 authors
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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite;…
— Lotte Reiniger
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The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
— Mason Cooley
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The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.
— John Updike
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I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
— Giambattista Valli
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I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially.…
— Alex Kapranos
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Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a…
— Kerry King
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I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
— Allan Dwan
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Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this…
— Henry Adams
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A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get…
— Ryan Adams
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A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch…
— Orson Welles
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For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks…
— Jeff Foxworthy
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better…
— Umberto Eco
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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust…
— James Joyce
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I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a…
— Cornelia Funke
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I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels…
— Ally Carter
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I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me…
— Billy Collins
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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Scissors Quotes
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