Cut Quotes - page 5

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. [sighs] It's a start... (Steven Wright)
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return. View quote
Robert Graves
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows? View quote
Christian Slater
I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. View quote
George W. Bush
That's why I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them. View quote
George W. Bush
Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. View quote
John le Carré
I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe." View quote
Neil Gaiman
Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards ... and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. (Garth Brooks)
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The law is an expression of God's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant. View quote
Anthony de Mello
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk. View quote
Alphonse Daudet
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I have a vest. If I had my arms cut off, it would be a jacket. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
You know they call corn-on-the-cob "corn-on-the-cob," right? But that's how it comes out of the ground, man. They should call that "corn", and they should call every other version "corn-off-the-cob." It's not like if you cut off my arm you would call my arm "Mitch", but then reattach it and call it "Mitch-all-together." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. (Angela Carter)
My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Solidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever. View quote
Kathleen Hanna
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience. View quote
Kage Baker
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy. View quote
Kathy Acker
The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark And we may lose everything in the wind But the Northern Lights are burning And they're giving off sparks. View quote
Jim Steinman