Quotes About Sharp Knives

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

Claire Fontaine

#2. 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

#3. The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

George Orwell

#4. Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.

Hans Christian Andersen

#5. The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

Terry Pratchett

#6. As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.

Steven Pinker

#7. What, then, was left to her? She had no allies. She had no throne. She had no Mehmed, no Radu. She had only these sharp men and sharp knives and sharp dreams, and no way to make use of any of them.

Kiersten White

#8. Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

Simone Elkeles

#9. Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

Hans Christian Andersen

#10. Sharp knives, of course, are the secret of a successful restaurant.

George Orwell

#11. And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.

Ken Foster

#12. Come on, Penny. Rita came over and Nate loosened his grasp. We've got to go to the kitchen. She turned to Nate. You know, the room with all the sharp knives.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#13. Our bags were packed, knives were sharp, and we were ready to go fuck shit up.

Karina Halle

#14. Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.

Nathan Hassall

#15. A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Katharine Hepburn

#16. You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the waterhole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, 'Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I'll look after your balls for you.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Dedicated ereaders are as sharp as steak knives in doing what they're supposed to do, which is let you read books. The iPad is more like a Swiss Army knife
it can cut the steak and uncork a wine bottle, and there's even a toothpick to use when you're done eating! It's got it all.

Jason Merkoski

#18. Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

Dana Gould

#19. He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable.

Clive Barker

#20. I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

Bobby Flay

#21. If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Gore Vidal

#22. Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Julia Child

#23. 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

#24. Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Eric Ripert

#25. I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.

Susan Sontag

#26. If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll
spend 7 hours to sharp my
knife.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

Bill O'Reilly

#28. The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.

Anne Sexton

#29. I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut ... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

Christian Serratos

#30. I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.

Wolfgang Puck

#31. The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small.

Ryan Holiday

#32. The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

Andre Norton

#33. Ah, hello." He gathered his courage. This was just like reading poetry, but subtract poems and add people casually placing hunting knives and daggers on their tables. One of the women was filing her fingernails into sharp points, like claws. Just like reading poetry.

Cynthia Hand

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Rae Carson