Knifepoint Quotes

#1. Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.

Rick Riordan

#2. Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

Janet Bode

#3. I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Dan Wells

#4. She smiles at me as if forced at knifepoint, the kind of smile that comes purely from manners, like the smile you give your grandmother when she gives you the rotten-cabbage-colored sweater she's been knitting.

Anna Banks

#5. Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.

Anthony Head

#6. Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

Sam Lipsyte

#7. all relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another - except at knifepoint - to do what he does not want to do."17

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#9. Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]

Marshall McLuhan

#10. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

#11. People are capable of surprising one frightfully. One gets an idea of them into one's head, and sometimes it's absolutely wrong. Not always - but sometimes.

Agatha Christie

#12. I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.

Tim Gunn

#13. But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#14. Come a crisis, we want other people.

Danny Boyle