Cut Quotes - page 2

I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. (Truman Capote)
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. View quote
William Ellery Channing
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. View quote
Petrarch
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. View quote
Colin Powell
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. View quote
Dolly Parton
Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. View quote
Samuel Johnson
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. View quote
Nora Ephron
Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. (Joan Rivers)
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. View quote
John Searle
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. View quote
Dr. Seuss
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. View quote
Henry Rollins
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. View quote
William Howard Taft
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. View quote
Wim Wenders
War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war. View quote
Albert Kesselring
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. View quote
Tom Chatfield