Scalpel Quotes

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. (Michael Ondaatje)
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. View quote
Vernor Vinge
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. View quote
Irving Penn
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. View quote
Jay Samit
As giant third world hordes just pour in, raping everyone just reaghhhhhh, reaghhhh! Just sexualizing our children, ruling everything, debasing the currency, drugging the food and water giving everyone cancer and just dancing to their god of death, selling body parts, chopping up babies that battle the scalpel. I mean it's just... it's just on Hell on Earth, the gates are opening. And out will flood the armies... View quote
Alex Jones
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. View quote
Richard Matheson
I marvel'd how Man, by his GOD-sent wit, Thus tam'd the salamander Element And loos'd the Metal in the mountain pent To make us Saws, and Shears, and useful Plows, Swords for our hands, and Helmets for our brows, The surgeon's Scalpel, vehicle of Health, And all our humble Tools for gaining wealth... ”De Arte Munificente,” Seventeenth century. View quote
John Brunner
I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values. View quote
Lenny Bruce
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. View quote
Ed Koch
Michael Jordan did not get good at basketball by practicing 42 minutes a week, which is what most kids have in the computer lab. ... Whether it's a scalpel, baseball bat or a computer, the skill in the use of a tool rests upon practice and familiarity, and that's what these kids are going to have to an unprecedented extent. View quote
Angus King
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. (Patricia Cornwell)
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. View quote
Jonathan Davis
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
The scalpel won't make you happy. View quote
Demi Moore
The reality of buried truths raised suddenly into light is like a scalpel driven solely by an intent to slash, irregardless of whether or not a healing follows. And within the dim corridors of such an observation dwells many dangers indeed; chief among them perhaps, the horror of a man glimpsing his image in a shard of truth's mirror and discovering he is––or at least that some fundamental segment of him remains––as yet, a lost and broken little boy. View quote
Aberjhani
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense. View quote
Hans Christian von Baeyer