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  • Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

    "Moving Beyond Tribal Religion" by Ryan Thomas Neace, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.
  • Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

    Dog   Sleep   Writing  
    Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  • Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

    Acting   Lasers   Theater  
    Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.9, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

    "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.
  • God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

    God   Lying   Dust  
  • You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?" I am one. Death is my enemy." Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger." Yup.

    Warrior   Enemy   Daggers  
    J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.397, Penguin
  • Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

    Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library
  • At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

  • The scalpel won't make you happy.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

  • Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

    Doctors   Wallets   Fats  
    Reagan, Ronald (1984). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 198”, p.709, Best Books on
  • It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

  • If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

    Patient   Poet   Clean  
  • Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

    Self   Hands   Medicine  
  • Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

    "Denton A. Cooley, M.D. on Preparation". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
  • The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

    New York   Law   Knives  
  • If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.

    Doctors   Medicine   Use  
  • An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  • Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

    Clubs   Truth Is   Used  
  • Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

  • DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

    Science   Men   Doctors  
    Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing
  • If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

    Reading   Writing   Two  
  • A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

    Blow   Torches   Use  
  • I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

    Taken   Body   Scalpels  
    "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011.
  • The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

    Hair   Voice   Scalpels  
    Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”
  • I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

    Book   School   Doctors  
  • After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

    Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
  • He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

    CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289
  • The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

    Pain   Painful   Truth Is  
    "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.
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