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Quotes About Knives

the conclusion is they've got enough features in common to suggest the same perpetrator. It looks like he uses two knives, a carving knife and a machete. The victims were all vulnerable—prostitutes, drunk, emotionally off balance—and all picked up off the street except for Kelsey. He took trophies from
~ Robert Galbraith
The best defense against knives was distance. The best countermove was entanglement.
~ Lee Child
I always wanted to be blind folded and throw knives at a pretty girl spinning on one of them big wheels. back then i used to throw knives at everything, you know, to see how good my aim was. I tell you, i could hit a mosquito with a knife and pin it to a wall as it flew by.
~ Doug Hiser
You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?' Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?' 'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?' 'The kind you obey.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I've done some research for my books and talked to a few humans, and they all said humans would use guns and knives and clubs for weapons." The Crow nodded. "A screaming woman with a teakettle just doesn't sound sufficiently dangerous." "But she was! They were!" Alan said. "How would a human deal with them?
~ Anne Bishop
Their faces I thought were knives. The way they pointed them at me. And waited. A hunter is someone who listens. So hard to his prey it pulls the weapon. Out of his hand and impales. Itself.
~ Anne Carson
I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.
~ Tessa Thompson
While my scarcely controlled rage flew from my mouth in sentences I hoped would be, perhaps not then but perhaps later, like knives to her brain.
~ Lorrie Moore
Even the most avid technocrat must occasionally escape from virtual space, and what better place to do it than the kitchen, with all its dangerous knives and delicious aromas?
~ Ruth Reichl
You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,
~ Joe Abercrombie
Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You can never have too many knives." "No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Love is a drawer for knives to rust in.
~ Joey Comeau
The Fremen must be brave to live at the edge of that desert. By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives.
~ Frank Herbert
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.
~ Antonin Artaud
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
~ Ruth Rendell
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Technomancy, which had been in old days the magic of letters and forged things, and was now the magic of words and machines and miscroscopic knives and wires.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Pepper mills (aka pepper grinders) rank just behind knives as primary causes of horrific kitchen accidents, according to an unofficial study that occurred in my life experience.
~ Chris Morocco
I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good.
~ Noel Fielding
Global knives, a very good Japanese product which has — in addition to its many other fine qualities — the added attraction of looking really cool. Global makes a lot of knives in different sizes, so what do you need? One chefs knife. This should cut just about anything you might work with
~ Anthony Bourdain
Most of the professionals I know have for years been retiring their Wusthofs and replacing them with the lightweight, easy-to-sharpen and relatively inexpensive vanadium steel Global knives, a very good Japanese product which has — in addition to its many other fine qualities — the added attraction
~ Anthony Bourdain
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
~ William Chapman