Quotes About Sharpness

The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp.

Conversations with some people remind me of a broken sword. Sharp as hell, but lacking a point.

A knife can only be sharpened so far before all you are doing is wearing it away.

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.

Lame blades can dull relatively quickly, so after slashing several loaves the blade won't slice through the dough with tremendous ease. (When this happens, don't throw it away - it's still sharp enough to score duck or pork skin, or shave paper-thin slices of garlic and chives, like a hot knife through butter).

I have never seen a strong and better weapon as truth. When you are honest you will just love it. People are afraid of the truth because of its sharpness, that's why they're liars.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I believe in smart people.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Huoneesta kuuluva Piersin ääni oli hiljainen mutta veitsenterävä. (C. J. Sansom: Ilmestys, suom. Ilkka Rekiaro)

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

My granny used to say if you're too sharp you'll cut yourself

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.

Und dann sehe ich doch auch gleich, dass Sie anders sind als andere, dafür haben wir Frauen ein scharfes Auge.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind

If you would not spill the wine, do not fill the glass too full. If you wish your blade to hold it's edge, do not try to make it over-keen.