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  • I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  • You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

    Song: Talking Loud And Saying Nothing, Album: There It Is
  • A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a stallion—" He dissolved in a flurry of white smoke even before I could finish the sentence. Ha! Victorious again!" Yeah," Jim drawled while I remade the bed and fluffed up my pillows. "Aisling, two; sexy, naked men who just want to give her the pleasure of a lifetime with no commitment, zero.

    Sexy   Zero   Commitment  
  • I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

    Knives  
    "Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen + The Joys of HSN". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. May 28, 2010.
  • My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

  • New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.

    New York   Years   Knives  
    "Madonna's Back". www.harpersbazaar.com. October 4, 2013.
  • I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

    Cutting   Years   Knives  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage
  • You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

    School   Cutting   Knives  
    Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House
  • I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

    Father   Flames   Knives  
    Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin
  • God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

    Death   Science   Knives  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage
  • They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

    Gun   Knives  
    Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.121, Spiegel & Grau
  • 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.

    Oysters   Knives   Parent  
  • Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

    Blow   Knives   Decision  
    "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.
  • COME ON, I KNOW THE WEIRDEST THING. THE WEIRDEST THING IS THAT CHICK ............THAT CAME UP AND ASKED ME TO CUT HER WITH A KNIFE. ISN'T THAT THE WEIRDEST THING?

    Cutting   Knives   Chicks  
  • Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

  • If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

    Girl   Learning   Blow  
  • I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

    Money   Law   Knives  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library
  • What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

    Girl   Dream   Blood  
  • Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

    Pain   Knives   May  
    William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin
  • It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.

    Kindness   Block   Blow  
  • Crazy gets all the knives.

    Crazy   Knives  
  • Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

    Love Is   Knives   Plunge  
  • A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

  • The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

  • I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

  • Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

    Running   Heart   Pride  
    Julie Garwood (2012). “Mercy”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.

  • If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.

    Nice   Gun   Knives  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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