Knives Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Gossip, Potatoes, Asparagus

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• ... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

  Mimi Pond

  Running, Army, Shoes

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

  Conrad Aiken

  Life, Song, Thirsty

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Youth Imperturbable”

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Decision, Weakness

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Hands, Pot

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis

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• We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

  Epictetus

  Freedom Of Speech, Blunt, Should

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

  Oswald Spengler

  Men, Soul, Would Be

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”

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• "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Air, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Book, Romance

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• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Powerful, Heart, Cutting

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Trying, Use

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• What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Mean, Power

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• Freedom is like a man who kills himself
  Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
  Grows sharp in blood.

  Wallace Stevens

  Suicide, Freedom, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.292, Vintage

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• the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Lying, Cutting, Tissues

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• My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

  David Lange

  Scar, Slips

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 96), 2000.

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• 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

  Art, Cabinets, Obsidian

  "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Tomorrow, Election

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• I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?

  Eoin Colfer

  Two, Wire, Pockets

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• Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhism, Hands, Giving

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.

  Nick Hornby

  Life, Happiness, People

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• And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Thinking, Inspiring Love

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

  Joe Hill

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sweet, Cutting, Kissing

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.257, Penguin

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• Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Black, Done

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• He leaned a fraction closer. “My lovers have always been warrior women. Strength intrigues me.” She refused to let him play with her like this, even if her body disagreed. Vehemently. “Do knives intrigue you, too? Because touch me and I will cut you up. I don’t care if you throw me off the nearest balcony.

  Nalini Singh

  Warrior, Cutting, Play

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.47, Penguin

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