Cut Quotes - page 9

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. (Mary Astor)
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality. View quote
Peggy Orenstein
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world. View quote
Rick Riordan
Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful. View quote
Rick Riordan
At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested. View quote
Rick Riordan
I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began. View quote
Andrew Pyper
If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day. View quote
Robin Wright
Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges. (Tana French)
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action. View quote
Tom Perrotta
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking. View quote
Hannah Fry
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. View quote
Holly Black
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts. View quote
Holly Black
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause. View quote
Herbert M. Shelton
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian) (Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.) And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and cut an appreciative look to Nykyrian.) Dayum...woman be hot. (Syn) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere. (Bong Joon-ho)
Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationshps; we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other. View quote
Bruce D. Perry
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short. View quote
Gary Busey
Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. View quote
Glen Cook