Fencer's Quotes

#1. My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

Andrew Wyeth

#2. The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. People may have their opinions about Senator Helms, but he was highly effective and he took care of his constituency. I learned all those lessons from him, and I bring a great deal to the table because of that.

David Rouzer

#4. My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.

Coby Bell

#5. Houses are like boats," Aunt May had sniffed. "They should always keep their original names.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. Unless we embrace our own heritage of the sacred, we will not only deny the identity of Europe. We will also fail in providing a service to others to which they are entitled.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. If we get a 3D printer at the office, the first thing I'm printing with it is a new 3D printer just for me!

The Covert Comic

#8. SMILE Is Not Just A Word ... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD ... So SMILE ALWAYS ... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#9. Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

B.F. Skinner

#10. I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness ... , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference ... that was only ... pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether.

Hermann Hesse

#11. Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.

William Goldman

#12. I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

Aldous Huxley

#13. I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

Samuel Rutherford

#14. Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Alan Rickman

#15. Cooking is not a mystery.

Edward Espe Brown

#16. I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

Alisher Usmanov

#17. Technically speaking, Maldynado is the better fencer. Your man is the better killer.

Lindsay Buroker

#18. People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Bryant McGill

#19. Being accustomed to something did not mean it was any easier to deal with.

Manda Collins

#20. I know you're a great fencer, but I've been told your wit is even sharper than your sword. So much so in fact, that you only use your sword upon your friends, as your wit is far too deadly.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.

Scott Lynch