quotes about Razors
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
-- Aaron Allston -
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
-- Alexander Pope -
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
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Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.
-- Bob Dylan -
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...
-- Brad ThorSource : Brad Thor (2013). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #4: The Athena Project, Full Black, and Black List”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
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Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever
-- Dave Regis -
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I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.
-- David Ginola -
The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!
-- David PogueSource : "The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.
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Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.
-- Doug Sanders -
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
-- Elizabeth EdwardsSource : Source: www.progressive.org
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I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
-- Frank Miller -
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
-- Freddie Mercury -
And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.
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Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.
-- Herman KochSource : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd
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The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
-- Hermann Goring -
We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light,
-- Ichabod -
because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
-- Jacques Ellul -
Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.
-- Jake Johannsen -
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
-- James Joyce -
Ockham's disposable razors
-- James K. MorrowSource : "Towing Jehovah". Book by James K. Morrow, 1994.
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It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.
-- Joanna Macy -
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
-- John Maeda -
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A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.
-- John WolcotSource : John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.136
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What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I would give my best quartet for a good razor,
-- Joseph Haydn -
In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.
-- Kelly Cutrone -
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You know what I like about disposable razors? They're disposable.
-- Kyan DouglasSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.
-- Mark Joyner -
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I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
-- Mark Teixeira -
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
-- Marlon Brando -
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
-- Mary Wortley MontaguSource : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Verses Addressed To The Imitator Of The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace”
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March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
-- Mike Tyson -
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All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade
-- Noel Gallagher -
Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
-- Richard Neutra -
We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.
-- Robert LowellSource : Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”
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He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
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I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
-- Roberto Bolano -
Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.
-- Scott Hastie -
Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.
-- Simon ArmitageSource : Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin
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We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
-- Simonides of Ceos -
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All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
-- Spiro T. Agnew -
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
-- Stephen Sondheim -
There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.
-- Tahir Shah -
My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.
-- Terence StampSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
-- Thornton WilderSource : Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”
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You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors
-- Vic Fuentes -
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.
-- Willard Van Orman QuineSource : Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.177, Harvard University Press
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Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.
-- Yoko OnoSource : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
-- King C. Gillette -
Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.
-- Otto Rehhagel -
Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
-- Alexander StubbSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.
-- Jo-Ann Mapson -