Quotes About Sharpness

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.

It's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.

I think a lot of times what practice can do for you when guys are playing a lot of minutes, it sometimes takes away a little bit of their sharpness, because they have the puck a lot and all that.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

That's how I am! eyes peeled, scientific! first things first! the big ones! the small ones!...if they're going to behead you...for example!...you don't take your eyes of the guillotine!...look, the blade's dull! -Executioner! you shout, hey, you lazy fucker! don't you have anyone sharpening that thing? And the executioner scurries off, shit-assed and sheepish!

The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.

ABATER  (ABA'TER)   n.s.The agent or cause by which an abatement is procured. Abaters of acrimony or sharpness: expressed oils of ripe vegetables, and all preparations of such; as of almonds, pistachoes, and other nuts.Arbuthnoton diet.

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Meglio non farmi incazzare. Ho il cuore acuminato come le schegge di un'esplosione.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.

Amalia avait l'imprévisibilité d'une écharde.

The world looked particularly crisp and etched-out in the sunlight.

I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick.

You want to play as many games as possible, you want to stay sharp, and there is nothing like game fitness.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Good wits will jump.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.