Knife Quotes
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We can't tell whether the abrasion was caused by a brickbat, a gun, a knife or what.
Larry Williams
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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
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. . . 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
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Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.
Dick Williams
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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
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn
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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
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
Ella Leya
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She is carrying round a pizza cutter 4 protection. She's so freaked. She wants me to carry a steak knife.
Carrie Jones
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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
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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
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
Charles Dickens
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
Lord Byron
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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
