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Quotes About Knife

Look down, your grace, said Skimmer. Mhm, mhm. Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. Look down further, he said. Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a knife, too. You really are no gentleman, then, he said. Make a sudden move and neither are you, said Vimes.
~ Terry Pratchett
Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork!
~ Terry Pratchett
had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knife point, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.
~ Terry Pratchett
And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put little faith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt.
~ Terry Pratchett
Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.
~ Tess Gerritsen
This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror. It's the power that thrills him. Ultimate power, over life and death.
~ Tess Gerritsen
This unsub is a classic picquerist. Someone who uses a knife to achieve secondary or indirect sexual release. Picquerism is the act of stabbing or cutting, any repeated penetration of the skin with a sharp object. The knife is a phallic symbol--a substitution for the male sexual organ. Instead of performing normal sexual intercourse, our unsub achieves his release by subjecting his victim to pain and terror.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The mind is like a sharp knife that cuts reality into separate pieces.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
~ Louise Brooks
Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'
~ Rebecca Pidgeon
I do balisong knife twirling.
~ Justin Prentice
My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.
~ Curtis Stone
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
~ Jack Abramoff
I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.
~ Jackie Coogan
hmmm. Didn't they say a man's feet echoed the size of his manhood? Of its own accord, her gaze darted up Gregor's leg to where his deliciously tight breeches caressed his- "Knife." She blinked, her gaze jerking up to his face, her skin flushing. Please, God, don't let him know what I was thinking. "Knife." he said again. "Knife?" she repeated dumbly. "Good god, Oglivie. I will need a knife if I'm to cut these vegetables.
~ Karen Hawkins
Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.
~ Karen Hawkins
There was a knife in his hand. He gave me a tight, mocking smile as he moved to the slab. "Wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left." He sliced into the Fae.
~ Karen Marie Moning
So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.
~ Karen Traviss
A person was more like an apple than a banana. You couldn't peel a person easily with your fingers. With a person, you needed a knife. With a person, like an apple, you could eat the skin.
~ Brian Evenson
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
He's weak and ignorant, scared of the way consequences of an action leap away from your control and breed new events, new consequences, until you're led to a place you never dreamed of and would never choose - a knife at the throat.
~ Ian Mcewan
It was a fury that exploded in the soldiers' faces against Great Britain, which was willing to hang one of them for possessing a knife, but couldn't hear the sound of bombs falling on them in broad daylight.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah