Quotes About Sawing

#1. Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

Waris Dirie

#2. It is Sunday. The weekend, that three-day festival of attrition, is done. Sunday is the day of purgation and redress; of tenderised brain cases and see-sawing stomachs and hollow pledges to never, ever get that twisted again.

Colin Barrett

#3. Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly.

Howard Pyle

#4. Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

Rafael Yglesias

#5. A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Cristina Garcia

#7. I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

Abbas Kiarostami

#8. Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

Mark Twain

#9. Whenever someone starts a statement with, Let me tell you the kind of guy I am, that is a great time to start sawing your own head off.

Dana Gould

#10. I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

David Lodge

#11. There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved.

Lauren Oliver

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

David Lynch

#13. Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.

Ella Leya

#14. Rubbing a clit to completion and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.

Karina Halle

#15. When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave.

Cormac McCarthy

#16. The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old.

David Mitchell

#18. Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

Michelle Tea

#19. Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.

Frederick Buechner

#20. The razorous shoulder blades sawing under the pale skin.

Cormac McCarthy

#21. Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

Holly Black

#22. Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#23. Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw.

Stephen Covey

#24. The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

Jane Goodall

#25. Life is really amazing if we know how to fill our hearts with the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

#27. You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

Alan Sillitoe

#28. People don't buy from clowns.

Claude C. Hopkins

#29. Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

Onyi Anyado

#30. I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

John Polkinghorne

#31. Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

Joyce Meyer

#32. God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

Hafez

#33. By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.

Tony Evans

#34. Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Martin Luther King Jr.