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Quotes About Sharp

I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful—a knife's edge of joy.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Schmal-der schmalste Weg den wir kennen, ist der auf der Schneide eines Messers...
~ Heinrich Boll
Everything was accelerating now towards that crucial point. Point in the sense of time. Point in the sense of aim. Point in the sense of something so sharp it hurts.
~ Helen Macdonald
In Ekaterinburg, as in many other Russian cities, the sharp and unavoidable disparity between Bolshevik rhetoric and Bolshevik practice was now becoming only too painfully clear.
~ Helen Rappaport
Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.
~ Henry Rollins
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Quantum mechanics can be appreciated, to some degree, on a purely qualitative level. But mathematics is what brings its beauty into sharp focus. We have tried to make this amazing body of work fully accessible to mathematically literate nonphysicists.
~ Leonard Susskind
The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.
~ Leslie Miklosy
Privately Kate thought that for a guy in a banana-yellow suit he was turning out to be a pretty sharp operator.
~ Lev Grossman
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
~ Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~ Washington Irving
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~ Washington Irving
Most ceramic plates, bowls, and cups have an unglazed rim around the very bottom, where the piece was in contact with the floor of the kiln. This unglazed ceramic is harder than metal and can be used just like a sharpening stone.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
~ Don Bluth
Arithon; the word brought Asandir to sharp attention. Whoever had named this prince had known what they were about, for the Paravian root of meaning was 'forger', not of metals, but of destiny.
~ Janny Wurts
The shadows' geas bound the mind to madness: already Athera's hope of renewed sunlight might be ruined. Sharp words prodded the Mad Prophet back to awareness.
~ Janny Wurts
En minä halua kulttuurikriittisiä ja -poliittisia kannanottoja. Minä kaipaan kylmää ryyppyä ja terävää ajattelua.
~ Jarkko Laine
She was sharp, and acrid of temperament; and in her speech she was sarcastic at most times, and when angry, incisive and severe. Her words at such times fell like nettles upon those at whom she thrust them.
~ Unknown
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
In the 'Test Kitchen', I have a strict knife sharpening process.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
~ John Trumbull
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
~ Bobby Ray Inman
scavengers who attacked dragons for their treasure, waving sharp little toothpick claw things called swords.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
toothpick claw things
~ Tui T. Sutherland