Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.

Rachael Taylor

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

Rachel Bilson

I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

Rachel Caine

Oh, he is cute!” Shane said in a fake girly voice. “Gee, maybe we can ask him out!” “Shut up, you weasel. Claire, hit him!

Peter Welch

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Peter Mullan

I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

Peter Medawar

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Pete Seeger

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

Pervez Musharraf

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Peter Matthiessen

It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

Peter George Peterson

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Quentin Crisp

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Quentin Tarantino

American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them.

Quentin Tarantino

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Quentin Tarantino

I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.

Pocahontas

How high does a sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll never know.

Pocahontas

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

Plotinus

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine...

Pliny the Elder

The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

Philip Yancey

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

Natsuki Takaya

Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way. Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.

Thom Yorke

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance

Thom Yorke

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

Theophilus London

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Theresa May

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

Theresa May

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

Theresa May

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

Terry Tempest Williams

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.

Terry Pratchett

And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

Terry Pratchett

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Terry Pratchett

The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

Terry Pratchett

Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

Terry Goodkind

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.