Quotes by Knives Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself. Patti LaBelle knives anger long A knife is only as good as the one who wields it. Patrick Ness knives Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving. Patrick Ness knives saving hands So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do. Patrick Rothfuss knives mistake dirty I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. Paul Engle knives terrible boys When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349 Oscar Wilde knives heart lying Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives. Paul Lieberstein spoons knives cereal Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. Paul Simon knives rock-and-roll cutting His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. Percy Bysshe Shelley knives losing lost All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives. Philip Larkin drawers knives mind The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Philip Pullman knives technology knowing Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat. Phillip Noyce knives mean thinking Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling. Phyllis McGinley knives men boys Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. PZ Myers knives cabinets art What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing. Quentin Crisp knives hurt mistake When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no? Pope Francis apostles knives language To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. R. Scott Bakker indulge knives madness I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much. Rabih Alameddine knives dream love A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore knives inspirational hands Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with. Rachel Hartman irony knives heaven «1718192021222324252627»
