Cut Quotes - page 10

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. (Gregory David Roberts)
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality. View quote
Daniel Pinchbeck
All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that? View quote
David Eddings
Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour. View quote
David Levithan
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions. View quote
Jackee Harry
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. View quote
Jacqueline Susann
Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand? View quote
James Patterson
That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious. View quote
E. Lockhart
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. (Eugenio Montale)
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story. View quote
Ian Rankin
We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show. View quote
Carlton Cuse
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. View quote
Alice Hoffman
After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream? View quote
Ken Bruen
The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget. View quote
Leon Panetta
Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. View quote
Denis Waitley
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows. View quote
Joanne Harris
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. View quote
Margaret of Valois
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. View quote
Nancy Mitford