Paring Quotes

#1. You were cut?" "Yeah, but I'm okay. Just a little sore." Devilishness shined in Malik's eyes. "What was the weapon again? Paring knife? Melon baller?" He squeezed his thumb and forefinger together. "One of those cinnamon-flavored toothpicks?

Chloe Neill

#2. I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

Annie French Hector

#3. For nurturing the mind, there's nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but they'll be few. If you have many desires, there may be some enduring principles in your mind, but they'll be few indeed.

Mencius

#4. What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.

Tom Robbins

#5. You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#6. Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

William Shakespeare

#7. The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

Roger Rosenblatt

#8. The last thin paring of the old moon hung over the distant mountains to the west. Venus had moved away. With dark a gauzy swarm of stars. He could not guess what they were for so many.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire.

Kevin Brockmeier

#10. Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

Geoffrey Ward

#11. Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.

Sonya Hartnett

#12. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. She would be like that character in a novel she read once about the woman who rid herself of everything she owned, item by item. She kept paring down, paring down until all she had left could fit in her handbag. Then she walked out the door and left the house behind, too.

Rebecca Kelley

#14. With a paring knife she hacked off her waist-length hair just below the chin. Kit felt a shiver of misgiving. How would she net a talking fish now, or tether a dragon? How would she escape from her tower?

Marina Fiorato

#15. Knock him on the head with the umbrella stand? Jab him with the paring knife? Scream. Die. Papa.

Anthony Doerr

#16. Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.

Erica Jong

#18. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

James Joyce

#19. Put me on stage and I'm happy.

Mick Ralphs

#20. Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

#21. I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

Sean Kingston

#22. I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a ... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

Grace Gummer

#23. Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Carole King

#24. Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

Eddie Floyd

#25. I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#26. To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Gordon Brown