Shears Quotes

#1. The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

Josef Von Sternberg

#2. A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]

Suetonius

#3. But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

Mark Haddon

#4. Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

Erica Jong

#5. The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.
Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.
She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#6. You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

Kingfisher Pink

#7. Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen ... They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

Phyllis McGinley

#8. The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

#9. There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention

Margaret Atwood

#10. It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.

Mark Haddon

#11. And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

John Milton

#12. Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

Ursula Vernon

#13. The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Dean Koontz

#14. It's a Caster lock, not something on your locker door." Link huffed as he worked the gardening shears into the crack. "You're not from around here. Isn't a door in this whole county that can't be opened with a set of pliers or a sharp toothbrush.

Kami Garcia

#15. She draws her sister's blood with a pair of silver shears. What was meant to simply trim her hair has instead shorn off an ear.

Kendare Blake

#16. Ramona chuckled as she picked up her basket and pruning shears. "You, my dear, are wasted out here where no one but the servants are subject to your wry humor and intelligence." I grinned.

L.R. Olson

#17. How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.

Carol Shields

#18. Chrysanthemums," my friend commented as we moved through our garden stalking flower-show blossoms with decapitating shears, "are like lions. Kingly characters. I always expect them to spring. To turn on me with a growl and a roar.

Truman Capote

#19. I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Edna O'Brien

#20. I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.

Mark Haddon

#21. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

#22. Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)

Manjul Bajaj

#23. But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Souad

#24. The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.

James Patterson

#25. Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity.

Garry Fitchett

#26. My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.

Jake Shears

#27. I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Jake Shears

#28. I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

Jake Shears

#29. I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

Jake Shears

#30. I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

Jake Shears

#31. I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

Jake Shears

#32. My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

Jake Shears