Quotes About Cutting

#1. I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

Dan Rather

#2. I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

Herbie Hancock

#3. The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

Salma Hayek

#4. That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.

Courtney Milan

#5. Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

Bill Watterson

#6. the incisive observational powers of a female surgeon cutting out her own heart.

Patti Smith

#7. It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

Andy Cohen

#8. Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

Paul Ryan

#9. Her face was as red as her hair. "What are you doing," she cried.
Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. "Editing your paper." What did it look like he was doing?
"You're just cutting out stuff!"
"What do you think editing is?

M.M. John

#10. Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.

Baris Gencel

#11. By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

Dennis Hastert

#12. Situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

Alice Cooper

#14. Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

#15. For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#16. That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.

Clark Johnson

#17. ThinK: for a thin sneaking into a vast sea of Knowledge, and the water enables the clarity to see through.
The Hindu mythology has it that thinner than water is nothing but Knowledge.
Higher the cutting edge clarity, higher is the productivity.

Priyavrat Thareja

#18. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.

Ocean Vuong

#19. I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

Orson Welles

#20. When they got there, the first thing they saw was the man himself, with a white stick burning away in his mouth, cutting row after row of frosted cabbages. Rowsby Woof was with him, wagging his tail and jumping about in a ridiculous manner. After

Richard Adams

#21. She notices the unyielding ruthlessness of the storm; the crashing waves, the bitter sky kissing the water on the horizon, the keening laments of the sharp, cutting wind, and the relentless liquid deliverance of its somber showers. She'll never forgive the audacity of the storm's neglect.

Laura Kreitzer

#22. The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

Kobe Bryant

#23. I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

Todd Solondz

#24. Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Voltaire

#25. The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

Isadora Duncan

#26. I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting.

Marc Guggenheim

#27. People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Ray Charles

#28. Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

Zach Wamp

#29. The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Stanley Kubrick

#30. Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Yanis Varoufakis

#31. It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

Faye Dunaway

#32. Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory."
"I'll quote you on that when a cannonball lands in my lap," said Nina.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#34. There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Harvey MacKay

#35. The truth is, cutting raw meat off the bones gives us the creeps.

Megan Carle

#36. Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa "Sam" Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.

James Brady

#37. China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

Hillary Clinton

#38. Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

John Berger

#39. When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Marco Rubio

#40. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Tom Reiss

#41. Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Christian Marclay

#42. We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

John McCain

#43. I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

Alessandra Torre

#44. It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.

Makoto Shinkai

#45. I have to be honest, I'm not exactly impressed with your case," she said, cutting him off. "All you've got is a sporadic string of some very minor incidents. It's not as if anyone slapped an ass or grabbed a boob.

Julie James

#46. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When

Ann Radcliffe

#47. When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.

Raghuram Rajan

#48. You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

Helen Gurley Brown

#49. The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Paul Goldberger

#50. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Deborah Eisenberg

#51. The Navahos could forgive the Rope Thrower for fighting them as a soldier, for making prisoners of them, even for destroying their food supplies, but the one act they never forgave him for was cutting down their beloved peach trees.

Dee Brown

#52. A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

Adrienne Rich

#53. To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

Holly Marie Combs

#54. The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!

Steven Magee

#55. I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport
be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.

Patrick Willis

#56. She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

Scott Westerfeld

#57. The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

ZZ Packer

#58. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.

Madeline Hunter

#59. Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form.

Chuck Klosterman

#60. I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

Hart Bochner

#61. So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.

Brad Warner

#62. When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

Betty Dodson

#63. I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#64. Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

Bernie Sanders

#65. Most conversations drift. You need to steer. Assume the task of cutting boring threads of conversation and of offering new options. Encourage people to tell stories they mention in passing. Don't wait to be invited into a group, introduce yourself. In short: lead.

Charlie Houpert

#66. Aside from cutting off her head, though, I didn't really mean to kill her."
Granuaile laughed. "You know I'm on your side, but to an objective listener, that sounds like a less than convincing argument.

Kevin Hearne

#67. I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Leni Riefenstahl

#68. It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#69. I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Daniel Handler

#70. If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#71. We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Elizabeth Warren

#72. My tone was part bubbly, part cutting - a mash-up of sugar and snide so perfected I should TM it.

Kresley Cole

#73. I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Spalding Gray

#74. If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

John B. S. Haldane

#75. I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.

Craig Newmark

#76. When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.

William Davis

#77. I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#78. Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Milan Kundera

#79. Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.

Piers Anthony

#80. I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Elizabeth May

#81. If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.

Bernie Sanders

#82. Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

J.B. Morton

#83. Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

Kathy Freston

#84. Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

Eric Snow

#85. My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

Chris Bohjalian

#86. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke

#87. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Margaret Atwood

#88. I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

Phil Collins

#89. It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

Walter Cronkite

#90. The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

David Lynch

#91. You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Ronald Reagan

#92. Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil

#93. American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

Ed Rendell

#94. People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

Wes Craven

#95. Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.'
Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#96. You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.

Malak El Halabi

#97. This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Corrine Brown

#98. To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

Jon Oringer

#99. I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#100. Besides, she has always a house full of people; and, though they are chiefly fools and coxcombs, yet there is some pleasure in cutting them up.

Fanny Burney