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Quotes About Sharp

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.
~ Lemony Snicket
I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.
~ Lemony Snicket
I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.
~ Lemony Snicket
because morning gives a dimension of magic to any place it was soft and sharp at the same time.
~ Len Deighton
All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.
~ Jane Yolen
The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms.
~ Jane Yolen
Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.
~ Janet Fitch
When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''
~ Marti Noxon
You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.
~ Tory Burch
As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
~ Oscar Wilde
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class.
~ Pat Conroy
I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
~ Pat Conroy
Sorrow was like sleeping on stone, he decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them, fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Sorrow was like sleeping on stones, he decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them, shift them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
eyes too filled with the sharp edge of experience to hide their pain...
~ Dan Simmons
You are quite acute for a mental stillborn
~ Dan Simmons
She put her hand out and I stare at it. She say, I would like to welcome you to the neighborhood. Her voice sound sharp to me. Clean at the end of each word like when you snap your fingers. After each snap, the sound end, aint nothing coming after it like when we talk. When we talk, its like you humming at the end of every word you say.
~ Dana Johnson
To be anxious wasn't shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life's contradictions, more receptive to the true nature of things than everyone else. It was to be a person who saw with sharper eyes and felt with more active skin. It was to be a writer, and I wanted in.
~ Daniel B. Smith
Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point! I instantly exerted my wits. They were of the slovenly English sort; and they consequently muddled it all
~ Wilkie Collins
Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?
~ William Faulkner
His eyes look like pieces of a broken plate.
~ William Faulkner
But already he knows that his conscience will never allow him to divest this lost soul of this watch, and the knowledge hurts him. Fontaine has been trying all his life to cultivate dishonesty, what his father called "sharp practices," and he invariably fails. The
~ William Gibson
Rounding early means sharper recall in the end.
~ Chip Heath