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Quotes About Sharpness

The sharp employ the sharp.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.
~ Tina Fey
The important thing is always to be sharp and score when the opportunity arises.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
You have to believe - to me, the only way a team can improve is you have to be sharp.
~ Tom Thibodeau
We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.
~ John Skipper
Everything can change in Petersburg except its weather. And its light. It's the northern light, pale and diffused, one in which both memory and eye operate with unusual sharpness. In this light, and thanks to the directness and length of the streets, a walker's thoughts travel farther than his destination...
~ Joseph Brodsky
My dad always made a big thing about having well-cut suits. It's partly a cultural thing, but for him, looking sharp and presenting yourself well was very, very important.
~ Chuka Umunna
Or did you have your fingernails honed on a whetsone, my darling?
~ Ray Bradbury
se diría que capaces de hacer caer sobre alguien una mirada tan cortante y pesada como un hacha.
~ Joseph Conrad
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use
~ Washington Irving
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
~ Washington Irving
The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
~ James Geary
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.
~ James Redfield
I wouldn't like to deprive you of the pleasure of being clever at my expense!
~ Agatha Christie
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
~ Alan Moore
Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.
~ Richard Burton
Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)
~ Raymond Chandler
A half smart guy, she said with a tired sniff. That's all I ever draw. Never once a guy that's smart all the way around the course. Never once.
~ Raymond Chandler
Suskunluk kabiliyeti, baz? ÅŸeyleri kesebilirken baz? ÅŸeyleri kesemeyen bir b?çak gibi belirsiz bir keskinlikle birleÅŸiyor. Bir ÅŸeftaliyi kesebilir ama bir elmay? kesemez.
~ Richard Brautigan
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Too much virtuality will do that to you sometimes. There's this vague feeling of abrasion in the head when you disconnect, a disquieting sense that reality isn't quite sharp enough anymore, a waxing and waning fuzziness that might be what the edge of madness feels like.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Too much virtuality will do that to you sometimes. There's this vague feeling of abrasion in the head when you disconnect, a disquieting sense that reality isn't quite sharp enough anymore, a waxing and waning fuzziness that might be what the edge of madness feels like. The
~ Richard K. Morgan
...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.
~ Melina Marchetta
I really like clever men who challenge you.
~ E. L. James