Quotes About Knives

#1. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

R. Scott Bakker

#2. I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'

Erin Gray

#3. Never lick a steak knife.

Dave Barry

#4. 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

#5. At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Dennis Rodman

#6. I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

Gwyneth Paltrow

#7. I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

Paget Brewster

#8. I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives.

Amy Harmon

#9. I'm out of knives for the time being

Evie Wyld

#10. My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

Sandra Cisneros

#11. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

Santideva

#12. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Sharon Tate

#13. It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#14. The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

David Coverdale

#15. The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

Tim Cahill

#16. The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

D.T. Suzuki

#17. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

James Joyce

#18. Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

Robert Charles Wilson

#20. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#21. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

Homer

#22. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#23. I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.

V.E Schwab

#24. One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

Emma Donoghue

#25. My brother Felix used to say that my knives would never be as sharp as my tongue, which was a shame.

Rae Carson

#26. Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

Joanne Harris

#27. Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. White

#28. Can I ask why you're throwing knives at cheese?'
'Caleb came by to discuss something,' Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. 'And knife-throwing just came up somehow.'
'As it so often does,' I say, a small smile inching across my face.

Veronica Roth

#29. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

Edward Young

#30. Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

Hsing Yun

#31. When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

Clint Eastwood

#32. Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

Gosho Aoyama

#33. I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.

Aron Ralston

#34. With his long red beard, and bristling with firearms and knives, he reminded me of a pirate. A very mellow pirate, but a pirate nonetheless.

Larry Correia

#35. Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

Lloyd Grove

#36. Let's see, now ... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

Terry Pratchett

#37. You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

Lord Byron

#39. Arden, Matt discovered, was a force to be reckoned with. She had a flair for fighting with two curved knives, about the length of daggers. She whirled around like a flailing tornado, blocking and striking with fury.
The Fire Stone

Riley Carney

#40. The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Steve Guttenberg

#41. Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.

Devon Monk

#42. Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. They compose poems to their knives.

Frank Herbert

#44. I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

Frank O'Hara

#45. I'm pretty good with knives. I'm so good, in fact, that I could sever your testicles with one hand and slice open your throat with the other, and you'd go into shock so fast you'd die without ever knowing you'd spilled a fucking drop of blood.

Rachel Vincent

#46. Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

Hunter S. Thompson

#47. Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Hannah Woolley

#48. How do you accidentally kill a lord in his own manor?'
with a knife to the chest ... well a pair of knives actually, one can never be too careful

Brandon Sanderson

#49. No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

Libba Bray

#50. one dream had him chased by a giant pumpkin wielding knives, while a later dream had him chased by a giant knife wielding pumpkins. The first had been scarier, yet curiously it was the second that jerked him from his slumber.

Drew Hayes

#51. and three more for special "assignments." Nathanial provided long stiletto knives for the special training. The narrow knives were all black with thin blades that went straight to a point and sharp edges on both sides. They were design for one purpose, killing.

D.M. Stoddard

#52. Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Ray Bradbury

#53. The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

Charlemagne

#54. No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Franz Grillparzer

#55. Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?'

Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?'

'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?'

'The kind you obey.

Joe Abercrombie

#56. Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

Hank Williams Jr.

#57. I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

Barry McGee

#58. A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

Dana Gould

#59. Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.

J.J. McAvoy

#60. You're far too pretty to be dressed like that." His breath stirred my hair, "And you're entirely too excited to be working with knives.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#61. What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

J.R. Ward

#62. I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Thom Yorke

#63. We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.

Claire Fontaine

#64. Music, the knife without a hilt,

Dorothy Dunnett

#65. And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Kahlil Gibran

#66. I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives.

Laini Taylor

#67. Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Patti LaBelle

#68. The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

Bruno Schulz

#69. Poison is a coward's weapon' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. 'You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?

George R R Martin

#70. To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#71. Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.

Toni Morrison

#72. Mall maintenance halls are creepy. Plain and white, with fluorescent lighting, they evoke images of serial killers, hockey masks nd bloody butcher knives. The figure standing at the end does not help matters.

Suzanna J. Linton

#73. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.

Roman Payne

#74. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#75. Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

Wernher Von Braun

#76. The Jews should not have resisted Hitler ... They should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.

Carl Jung

#77. I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

Hinton Rowan Helper

#78. I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?
- Vaughn to Faith

Nalini Singh

#79. To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

Sarah Palin

#80. There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.

Iain Banks

#81. She wore leather pants, a long-sleeved shirt open over a tank top, and enough guns and knives to make her look like a pissed-off Ninja Turtle.

S.M. Reine

#82. I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

Meir Kahane

#83. pockets, feeling the extra shotgun shells, and then reached over his shoulder and felt the bat, ready to grab if needed. He had combat knives sheathed in both boots, but it was rare that he got to use those. He brought them

Keith C. Blackmore

#84. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.

Sherman Alexie

#85. I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

T. Allen Lawson

#86. Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

Daniel Boulud

#87. Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#88. I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

Jenim Dibie

#89. I'm always wary of beautiful women who carry knives." The chief laughed. "The wise words of someone who has experienced the wrath of one such lady and has a story I would like to hear." "I promise when this is over, the story is all yours." So long as I wasn't dead first.

Steve McHugh

#90. Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

Wes Borland

#91. Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.

Petr Beckmann

#92. When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits.

Terry Pratchett

#93. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Marcel Proust

#94. If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

Patience Strong

#95. Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Joel Edgerton

#96. So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.

Karen Traviss

#97. I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives ... it's not me and it's not my look.

Rachelle Lefevre

#98. [S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Max Barry

#99. Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#100. Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Meera