Knives Quotes - Page 6

• I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mom, Cutting, Blood

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• There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

  Ouida

  Cutting, Blades, Treachery

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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

  Steven Brust

  Style, Wizards, Matter

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Track

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

  Jackson Pollock

  Glasses, Broken, Usual

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

  Robert Jordan

  Girl, Brother, Kissing

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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• Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Easier, Spears

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• A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

  Barten Holyday

  Men, Oysters, Law

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Shining, Confusing, Naked

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  Brian Regan

  Two, Sandwiches, Jars

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• The tongue, the Chinese say,
  is like a sharp knife:
  it kills
  without drawing blood.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Drawing, Chinese

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Heart, Too Late, My Heart

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

  Arman

  Design, Entrepreneur, Kitchen

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• To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

  Sarah Palin

  Block, Two, Location

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• Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fighting, Years, Long

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cake, Mind, Experience

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  World, Blades, Life Wisdom

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Sadness, Guitar, Shoes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Fall, Thinking

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Games

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• Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Cutting

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Sri Yukteswar Giri, 1946.

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• It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

  John Speed

  Brother, Elephants, Black

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan

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• In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop it...No, I only meant to give him a shave...No, I didn't realize that slicing open someone's jugular was going to lead to death.

  J.R. Ward

  Giving, Trying, Acting

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.214, Penguin

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• If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Poison, Arson, Patterns

  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Gun, Letters

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