Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stuart Calverley

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Alanis Morissette

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

David Lange

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

Dave Barry

Never lick a steak knife.

Catherynne M. Valente

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

Bill O'Reilly

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.

Charles Baudelaire

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Bobby Flay

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.

Diana Wynne Jones

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Billy Joe Saunders

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Alan Rickman

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Dave Barry

normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

C. J. Cherryh

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Denis Leary

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

Charles Buck

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Charles Rangel

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

Benjamin Franklin

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Bret Easton Ellis

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

Brian Tracy

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.