Jack's Knife Quotes

#1. In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Jack Abramoff

#2. He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

Adelle Waldman

#3. Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214).

Jack Kerouac

#4. Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

Jack Paar

#5. Captain Jack said he'd take some of you if he couldn't have all of you," he said, the mirth in his eyes making light of her ire. "And you let him?" "Seems a small price to pay to keep you." "When? How?" she sputtered. "Near dawn, with his scalping knife." "While I slept?

Laura Frantz

#6. She gestured to the bag. "What have you got in there?"
"Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes."
"You took all of that with you to play golf?

Janet Evanovich

#7. Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Stephen Kinzer

#8. Drake was a man who retrieved things for people. His reputation was well-known, and people came to him not only for his reliability, but also his discretion. Certainly that was why he was here now, being offered this ungodly sum of money to go back in time.

Dennis B. Boyer

#9. There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Alex Jones

#10. I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around ... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

Jack White

#11. An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

Lee Child

#12. I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

CeeLo Green

#13. The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.

Jack Henry Abbott

#14. Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.

Jean Rhys

#15. Hurts you. It is an everlasting pain in you, a wound that does not heal, a knife of flame.

Jack London

#16. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#17. The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

Jack Keely

#18. Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

#19. Jack sheathed his knife, tied the dressed hare to a stick, and slung it over his shoulder. It wouldn't do for the meat to touch his school uniform. Might make the kill dirty.

Ilona Andrews

#20. The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

Al Meyerhoff