Paper Cuts Quotes:

It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.

- Tonya Hurley

topic: Cutting, Paper, Thousand, Paper Cuts

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

- Scott Fahlman

topic: Cutting, Suffering, Paper, Paper Cuts

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Suicide, Writing, Paper Cuts, Suicide Note

You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.7, Macmillan

topic: Cutting, Giving, Touching, Paper Cuts

If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.

- Sarah Addison Allen

source: Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.247, Bantam

topic: Eye, Mean, Cutting, Paper Cuts

It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cutting, Paper, Littles, Paper Cuts

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

- George Grosz

topic: Song, Dog, Morning, Banned, Successful Career

I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

- Suzanne Shaw

topic: School, Cutting, Hands, Paper Cuts, Coronation

The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

- Brendan Fraser

source: "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Depth Of Field, Paper Cuts, Dynamism

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

- Drake

topic: Humble, Cutting, Paper, Paper Cuts

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Enemy, Job Interview, Paper Cuts

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Fall, Taken, Cutting, Obsessing, Rollercoaster