Top 100 Quotes About Knife
#1. Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.
Theresa May
#2. Honesty is the knife with which we carve our paths. Sometimes we cut ourselves or others in the process.
E.S. Moxon
#3. Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.
Frank Bruno
#4. It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.
Mark Twain
#5. Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
Deepak Chopra
#6. My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#7. A knife? A knife? You come at me with a knife? ... I may be a bastard, a princess, a thief, and a royal. But do you know what the other thing is that makes me more powerful than you?" I said. He curled his lip at me. I held up the knife. "With a knife in my hand, I'm unbeatable.
A.C. Gaughen
#8. What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?"
"It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. He danced on the knife's edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. Sugar, you're allowed to feel any damn way you want." Just don't cry because your tears hurt worse than a knife wound to the gut.
Jessica Clare
#11. hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!
Bram Stoker
#12. The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.
Mors Kochanski
#13. Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib' by the Princess Irulan
Frank Herbert
#14. I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#15. Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham
#17. Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn't imagine where she'd been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear.
James Dashner
#18. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
Wovoka
#19. the knife's edge that separates failure from success in life. That edge is your attitude, which has the power to help shape your reality.
50 Cent
#20. When the Sovereign pushed against me, I bent like Gold should, with grace, with dignity. But now she cuts at me, and beneath the grace, beneath the aplomb, her knife will strike iron. We make for Mars, and for war.
Pierce Brown
#21. With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ...
Rene Char
#22. 1,2,3, I'm at the Chelsey Hotel, like, Sid and Nancy, with knife, and two grams of candy
Yelawolf
#23. I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
Benicio Del Toro
#24. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.
Lloyd Paul Stryker
#25. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.
Jackson Pearce
#26. Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad ...
Gregory Maguire
#27. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,
Gregory David Roberts
#28. On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#29. Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries.
C.J. Box
#30. My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
David Rakoff
#31. I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#32. I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
Dorothy Dunnett
#33. For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean.
Vladimir Putin
#34. She's just tried to bloody knife me, Robin!"
"Well, she didn't manage it, did she?" commented Robin, busy with the kettle.
"Ineptitude," said Strike incredulously, "is no fucking defense under the law!
Robert Galbraith
#35. Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
Jeanette Winterson
#37. I will never let go of this knife, no matter what she says, no matter how she says it. She
Patrick Ness
#38. Life is the thing
the song of life
The eager plow, the thirsty knife!
Conrad Aiken
#39. Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fuller
#40. A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
Louis L'Amour
#41. Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.
James Jones
#42. Fact: The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.
Demetri Martin
#43. I can stab myself, but I can't reach the knife to pull it out. And then everything starts to disappear. I start to fade away, too. Only the knife is always there - to the very end.
Haruki Murakami
#44. Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the side of her favorite knife with her fist. Beauty or horror, my heart. Turning on the stove. Beauty or horror, it passes.
Alexander Maksik
#45. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
Jude Morgan
#46. It is all about how you do things. You can cut the Apple with the knife and with the same knife you can kill somebody.
Newpostcard
#47. We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
Epictetus
#48. Either you're with me or you're against me. I can't afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.
Kyra Dune
#49. Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.
Nicole Castle
#50. Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.
Julie Garwood
#51. Sexual violence often doesn't look like what we think of as "violence" - only rarely is there a gun or knife; often there isn't even "aggression" as we typically think of it. There is coercion and the removal of the targeted person's choice about what will happen next.
Emily Nagoski
#52. Sharing his memories felt like handing over a sharp knife. A knife that others might handle carelessly. A knife that could be used to hurt him.
Matthew J. Kirby
#53. Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
Richard Russo
#54. I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
#55. Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.
Stacey Turis
#56. Yesterday I bought myself a new, very sharp kitchen knife.
And I managed to cut my finger within 5 minutes of getting home!
Those plastic packages are bloody dangerous!!!
Gary Edward Gedall
#57. As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.
Tom Robbins
#58. At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Malala Yousafzai
#59. Less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
Dean Koontz
#60. When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
Malcolm X
#61. Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#62. Tom, Tom, Tom," I said, fingering the top of the knife bar, which was dusty; I'd take care of that later. "You lost the right to ask for sympathy about three minutes ago. Now get out of our home before I stab you again.
Camille Pagan
#63. I come in peace,' Sorrow drawled, offering him the knife hilt-first. 'This was just in case I met anyone I didn't like on the way.
A.F.E. Smith
#64. Sometimes just seeing a woman smile is like a knife in the heart. It hurts and it rattles your whole system, but against all your instincts you swallow the pain and keep looking. After a while you realize it doesn't hurt as much as you thought it would.
Richard Kadrey
#65. I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.
Micah Lexier
#66. Jude wondered if the chip was smart enough to tell the difference between a dog and a naked psychotic scrambling around on all fours with a knife in his teeth.
Joe Hill
#67. Calm down. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need this knife to do it.
Melissa Cutler
#68. I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower's target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head.
Amy Plum
#69. The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
William Blake
#70. You chopped onions with a knife, spread butter with a knife. Yes, it could cause damage, but there were lots of other uses. There was only one use for a gun. Two
Anoushka Beazley
#72. Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect.
Deyth Banger
#73. Anger cuts through a wide range of things. Cuts like a knife
D.B.C. Pierre
#74. Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
Bill Fitch
#75. Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
Eric Ripert
#76. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
#77. When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
Robert M. Pirsig
#78. When Other blood spurts from the knife, Then everything is fine.
T.H. White
#79. Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.
George R R Martin
#80. So you're the music note, Beckett's obviously the knife, who's the cross?" She stroked Blake's tattoo.
"You're about to find out. We're headed to church." Blake leaned in to kiss her forehead.
"Of course we are. That makes perfect sense." From hell to heaven.
Debra Anastasia
#81. Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
George R R Martin
#82. And in a mad trance
Strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings
We decay
Like corpses in a charnel
Fear & Grief
Convulse is & consume us
Day by day
And cold hopes swarm
Like worms within
Our living clay
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#83. Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.
Steven Gerrard
#84. I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
Ralph Fiennes
#85. Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
Joe Queenan
#86. Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.
Kim Harrison
#87. I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
Edward Abbey
#88. The knife to heart is always a surprise;
it isn't the fashion to name evil
or forever bind a liar to their lies.
Talie Helene
#89. I am a writer ... a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.
Ey Wade
#90. Stop a knife? You're serious."
"As a heart attack."
"You are something else."
I couldn't tell if he was giving me a compliment or a veiled insult. "I try to be an individual. It's all the rage.
J.A. Saare
#91. I remember how that used to piss me off as a kid," he recalled. "Get yourself a brand-new knife and 5 minutes later it's hung up in power lines or a fucking tree. That sure is life. One minute things are moving along good, the next, the wind blows your ass to ruination.
Patricia Cornwell
#93. If I can wheedle
A knife or a needle,
Why not a Silver Churn?
W.S. Gilbert
#94. The way he said "Prism" left no question about what he meant: it was a proper name, the title of some strange passage, and his voice ached around that single syllable like flesh aches around a knife.
Seanan McGuire
#95. The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
Mason Cooley
#96. Removing Rust on Kitchen Items Items such as cutlery, knives will once in a while rust when left under damp conditions. To get rid of the rust, take a potato, cut it into half, then apply baking soda in the exposed part, and scrub on the rusty surface of the knife. This will
Anonymous
#97. I was lying on my bed, contemplating Mason's death when Amy strolled into our cabin.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Wondering what would cause more damage, a paint-brush in the eye or a putty knife shoved up someone's nostril," I answered, scowling at the ceiling.
Tiffany King
#98. The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
#99. Hawke nodded. He trusted the alphas of the leopard and falcon packs on a gut level. Neither Lucas nor Adam would ever knife him in the back, of that both parts of him were dead certain.
Nalini Singh
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