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Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

Stephen Colbert
knives air people

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King
knives discipline cutting
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded... by Stephen King

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Stephen King
knives cutting success

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Steve Guttenberg
allure knives hollywood

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. I've had these blokes in Hollywood hug me trying to make out I'm their friend and as soon as I turn their back they take out a big bunch of knives and stab me in the back. I feel sorry for these people because they are so shallow.

Steve Irwin
knives sorry heart

Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.

Stephenie Meyer
knives decision fall

No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is 'genius'), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

Stephen King
knives artist names
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder bla... by Steven Brust

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

Steven Brust
wizards knives style

Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

Steven Gerrard
knives player heart
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out.... by Stevie Smith

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Stevie Smith
knives ifs heart

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

Stevie Smith
knives vegetables food

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Steven Pinker
knives oxygen blow
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticki... by Sue Grafton

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

Sue Grafton
knives tables jars

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

Sun Yat-sen
knives men people
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there i... by Sydney Smith

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Sydney Smith
knives funny two

Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner
potatoes gossip knives

There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.

Suzanne Collins
squirrels knives hands

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

T. Allen Lawson
building-up knives art

Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

Suzanne Collins
knives white games
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup wi... by T. E. Lawrence

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

T. E. Lawrence
knives soup war
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