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Quotes About Knife

Good though his eyesight was, however, he would have been unlikely to spot the Stanley knife being turned rhythmically between long, fine fingers.
~ Robert Galbraith
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
the knife out and searching for the old woman in the
~ Robert Masello
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
You forgive me?" he said. "You, who left me in that tower, who put a knife into my side? Thank you, sister. It is very kind of you to forgive me, but excuse me if I decline.
~ Roger Zelazny
I have a knife. And I have a rule. Pull a knife on me, I break your arm.
~ Lee Child
She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen. 'Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what's the answer to that?
~ Lewis Carroll
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what's the answer to that?" "I suppose—" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?
~ Lewis Carroll
The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
~ Libba Bray
KAREN: Come on, honey, I'm mincing garlic and you're feeling amorous. Tell me: what am I supposed to do about this? GABE: You could try putting down the knife.
~ Donald Margulies
I can pay you and your crew a great deal of money if you will return me to my home." Cloud stood up, picking up his own knife. With a dexterity matching Alexis's he threw the knife at the door. It stuck in the wood only a few inches from hers. "No," he answered firmly. "I do not want your money and neither do my men.
~ Jo Goodman
Where d'you get the knife?" He wished he had one. "He gave it to me." There was a crumpled shape in the shadows by the wall, the matting all around soaked with dark blood. "This way.
~ Joe Abercrombie
the wall, over by the door, where Liam threw a knife
~ Anne Enright
His sisters were not happy, laughing girls. Dorie watched the world with wary suspicion and had not uttered a sound in the four months since he'd recovered them. And Cassie carried a knife strapped to her thigh. A child of fourteen. Those facts alone spoke volumes.
~ Anne Gracie
It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change.
~ Anne Tyler
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.
~ Brendan Hunt
It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.
~ Roberta Gellis
Stop it, or I will kill her, and you will lose your eyes and your ears here." And he drew his belt knife, and advancing to the serving woman, he laid the edge of it along her throat. The woman did not blanch or shrink away. She stood still, her eyes glittering, almost smirking at his threat. She made no response to his words.
~ Robin Hobb
The diplomacy of the knife.
~ Robin Hobb
Her hand now rested on the top of her left thigh. Where she had the knife strapped, he guessed, and immediately felt his gut tighten with a shot of good, old-fashioned male lust. He did not know why an armed woman should be so arousing, but man oh man, this one was.
~ Lisa Gardner
As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -Son, she said at last,—her eyes were full of pride,—have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men? Hah? said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now whither does THIS trail lead? Kaa's voice was gentler. Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.
~ Rudyard Kipling
With the knife—with the knife that men use—with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.
~ Rudyard Kipling
My fist, gripping the knife, looked like it meant business, and my arm felt strong and powerful, too. I liked that. Standing there, we were frozen in time, me and Daisuke-kun, and the future was mine. No matter what I chose to do, for this one moment I owned Daisuke and I owned his future. It was a strange feeling, creepy and a little too intimate, because if I killed him now we would be joined for life, forever, and so I released him. He crumpled at my feet.
~ Ruth Ozeki