Cutting Quotes

• Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

  

  Johan Eliasch
  • Long
  • Cutting

• Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • May
  • High

• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • People
  • Mother
  • Tree

• A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Running
  • Waiting
  • Sick

• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Done
  • Evil

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Garden

• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Years
  • Traditional
  • Holding

• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Discourse

• I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

  

  Al Jolson
  • Cutting

• It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Strong
  • Stuff
  • Shows

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I really love laser-cutting. I do a lot of laser-cut jewelry and laser-etched stationery. I'll even etch my food sometimes. You can download an image online and etch it onto a tortilla or a brownie. It's so cool to meld the digital and analog worlds together.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Together
  • Food
  • Cool

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Brain
  • Start
  • Information

• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Girl
  • Eye
  • Lying

• The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Fall
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Time
  • Cutting

• People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • People
  • Words
  • Bullying

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Room
  • Line

• It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Good
  • Cutting

• There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Cutting
  • Throat

• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Up
  • Know
  • Building

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