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Quotes About Slicing

Memory entering the head like a knife. A girl's hands slicing the heart in two.
~ Alfian Sa'at
It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The
~ Roald Dahl
The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.
~ Anne Sexton
What do scissors sound like? What did they say? Sly and steely, they started softly, a small susurration that quickly grew, whispering and slicing, hissing and metallic, forming what sounded more like human words, in a language Benny took to be Chinese, although he couldn't be sure. He didn't speak Chinese, so how could he know? But he seemed to understand all the snide, snippy things they insinuated into his ear about his teacher, Ms. Pauley.
~ Ruth Ozeki
She is slicing peaches with a special fruit knife.
~ E. Lockhart
Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
~ Mara Wilson
The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate.
~ Gary Paulsen
No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
~ Guy Fieri
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.
~ Federico García-Lorca
The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.
~ Rob Machado
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).
~ Claire Saffitz
Anything that's continuous can be sliced exactly (not just approximately) into infinitely many infinitesimal pieces.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
What are those bulb things you're slicing?" "You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.
~ Ken Jennings
She thought she'd focus on the compliment, rather than the terrifying glimpse she'd been given into her flatmate's soul. She found herself particularly worried by Marjorie's willingness to do all that, the slicing and the bleeding and the murdering, for only a percentage of the advantages she envied. There was something in this compromise that made it seem more real than Barbara wanted it to be.
~ Nick Hornby
He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
~ Virginia Woolf
She slid the chef's knife from the storage block, the whisk of metal leaving wood a crisp note slicing through the humid air.
~ Jess Lourey
And he doesn't like you to call him Mr. McStabby, you know. Have you ever seen him cutting up that meat? He is like an artist with slicing. And that knife is as long as my arm. Mr. McStabby it is.
~ Rachel Caine
You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...
~ Denis Johnson
Groats can then be sliced into two to four pieces
~ Michael Greger