Quotes and Sayings About Knives
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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
-- Abraham Verghese -
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
-- Alan Alda -
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 -
It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife
-- Aldous Huxley -
He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
-- Anais Nin -
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
-- Andre Norton -
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
When I used my knife, it brought psychological relief. I know I have to be destroyed. I was a mistake of nature.
-- Andrei Chikatilo -
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
-- Andrew Tudor -
She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.
-- Anne Stuart -
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 -
Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.
-- Apolo Ohno -
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
-- Arman -
I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.
-- Aron Ralston -
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!
-- Aya Nakahara -
Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.
-- Barbara -
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
-- Baroness Orczy -
...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.
-- Barry Lyga -
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
First,†he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.†He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.†“Does the chef always stand this close?†I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Cooking isn’t taught,†Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?†I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?†Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick
