Quotes About Sharpness

My God . . . that grinding is a greeting. My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe

I'm fond of that little scene. Whether my memory is completely accurate or not, it has a sharpness that nothing I look at now can possibly have.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life--its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness--conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

Los que bien conocen la ciencia mujeril saben que las dueñas chicas mejoran a las grandes en agudeza e ingenio y en que lo tienen todo más a mano.

Michael O'Donoghue didn't suffer fools. He didn't need to. Judd

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead: and then you deserve to be hung for it.

When Dr. Finch pulled at his drink, Jean Louise saw his sharp brown eyes flash above the glass. That's what you tend to forget about him, she thought. He's so busy fidgeting you don't notice how closely he's watching you. He's crazy, all right, like every fox that was ever born. And he knows so much more than foxes. Gracious, I'm drunk.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Yeah, I'm very smart.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

Woman, did you just give twelve-year-old cheddar to the dog?" "Yep. She has a very refined cheese palate." "Good to know." I cut off a slice for myself, savoring the sharpness and the little salty crystals that pop on my tongue before the cheese melts into savory creaminess.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They'd

I work out every single day, so you all don't have to worry about me being in shape, and my mind is going to always be sharp.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

a remark Khaldun had made once, when Dawit returned from the battlefield against the Italians: What do you gain from it, Dawit? Must a scythe prove itself sharper than a blade of grass? Let grass grow as it will. While

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp. It pays off.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.