Knife Quotes

• I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Great
  • Knife
  • Plastic

• If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Saved
  • Knife
  • Lambs

• We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Gun
  • Knife
  • Brickbat

• I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Heels
  • Boots
  • Martini

• You’re the vodka I drink every night but I don’t ever get drunk. You’re the knife turning in my heart but I’m way too numb. When did you stop trying, when did I become so comatose? If love’s a drug, I wish I that I could overdose.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • You
  • Stop
  • Vodka

• A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Knife
  • Heals
  • Fester

• But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Die
  • Hand

• "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
  • Knife
  • Human Heart
  • Strings

• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Knowing
  • Fingertrips

• Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.

  

  Dick Williams
  • Playing
  • Knife
  • Fork

• A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Hurts
  • Knife
  • Cuts

• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  

  Sophocles
  • Knife
  • Mutter
  • Wise Doctor

• She is carrying round a pizza cutter 4 protection. She's so freaked. She wants me to carry a steak knife.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Pizza
  • Carry
  • Steak

• Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

  

  Aya Nakahara
  • Knife
  • Twist
  • Doncha

• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Path
  • Paradox
  • Blade

• Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Light
  • Happiness
  • Loves

• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Time
  • Way
  • Course

• Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Ribs
  • Slipped

• A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

  

  Ansen Dibell
  • Story
  • Used
  • Knife

• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Fighting
  • Rules
  • Knife

• Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pain
  • Memory
  • Darkness

• It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Saying

• Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Answer
  • Division
  • Knife

• 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
  • Choose
  • Location
  • Knife

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