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Quotes About Knives

People forget the skates are like knives. Those blades are constantly sharpened... that's why they sound the way they sound. They are blades.
~ Phillip Schofield
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
~ Eric Ripert
On top of the bookcase were several Mexican papier-mâché figures of people with knives stuck through their heads and blood running down their faces...I found these comforting...They looked happy enough that way, and they were a nice metaphor for mental disturbance.
~ Susanna Kaysen
i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.
~ Helene Hanff
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
~ E. B. White
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
~ Steve Guttenberg
You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives!
~ Brian Regan
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
~ Terry Pratchett
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
~ Wolfgang Puck
I have always liked knives. Then somebody gave me one. Then somebody gave me another one. Then I liked having them and started buying them. I started finding ones I liked, ones with funky blades.
~ Tim Duncan
I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.
~ Emily Alyn Lind
We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.
~ Geert Wilders
Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.
~ Chris Grayling
Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.
~ Chuka Umunna
Most chefs only use and need a handful of knives - even if they own 25, they usually grab the same four or five.
~ Brad Leone
I absolutely cannot live without my set of kitchen knives - I would be completely lost without them.
~ Monica Galetti
What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water.
~ Karen Russell
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
~ Bruno Schulz
There would be time enough later on to hide the dead and invent stories. Now was the moment to pull out the knives and pay homage to cruelty. Wars soil everything, but they clean the memory.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You three looking for something specific?" Her voice was surprisingly melodious. "Any sacrificial knives?" Hi raised an index finger. "Nothing too fancy, and I'll need a no-slip grip. Me and the coven have some goats lined up for Saturday's bonfire." I could've kicked him. I think I tried.
~ Kathy Reichs
How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked. "They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.
~ Gena Showalter
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It was as if Morell had kidnapped the University of Nebraska's defensive line, put them through Marine Corps boot camp, and given them huge knives to hack people to bits with.
~ Ilona Andrews
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
~ John Hodgman