Sharp Quotes

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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see… — David Whyte
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a… — Dave Barry
It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is… — Dave Barry
West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their… — P.J. O'Rourke
Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to… — Dave Barry
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all… — Henry Moseley
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,… — Eudora Welty
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can… — Moss Hart
It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp. — Billy Gibbons
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to… — Tim Curry
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night. — Tommy Davidson
For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you… — Grant Bowler
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. — Antonia Fraser
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard
The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane. — Tori Amos
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. — Clay Shirky
Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone… — James Chanos
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. — John Maeda

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