Sharp Quotes - page 13

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn't make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons? (Barbara Demick)
I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest. View quote
Bear Grylls
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage. View quote
Bruno Mars
It hadn't had to take the form of this terrible bubble. It might as easily have been a sudden sharp burst behind his eyes or a slower, subtler gnawing at his vitals. But he'd known it was coming, as every man knows and tries to forget it is coming. View quote
Algis Budrys
I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
Hungry ears are sharp ones. View quote
Jane Smiley
I've been stabbed by a catfish. They've got quite sharp spines on their pectoral fins. View quote
Jeremy Wade
A vision of gaunt shapes, sharp shiny steel, dim lamps flaring in the rain. The war machine was rolling. View quote
John Jakes
I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things. View quote
Eleanor Catton
Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required. View quote
Alyson Noel
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. (Katherine Applegate)
Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't? View quote
Kris Carr
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms. View quote
Christopher Lasch
My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up. View quote
Lisa Lutz
I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. View quote
Joyce Meyer
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. View quote
Peter Marshall
But the serpent with his sharp unsleeping eyes had seen them coming and now confronted them, stretching out his long neck and hissing terribly. View quote
Apollonius of Rhodes
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. (George Herbert Mead)
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help. View quote
John Woolman
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. View quote
John Maeda
The second factor, equally important, is that of good continuation and good shape. The things which we see have a better shape, are bounded by better contours, than the holes which we might see but do not. Therefore, when in exceptional circumstances these conditions are reversed, we see the hole and not the things, as the shape of a gap between two projecting rocks with sharp profiles, which may look like a face, an animal, or some other object, while the shape of the rock disappears. View quote
Kurt Koffka
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character. View quote
Tim Curry