Quotes About Sharp

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

I always understood that the idea of education was to get one's mind as sharp as it will come before the party starts. Once the heart gets going you need all the wits you've got, my goodness.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money

an immense sea turtle, his forehead still sharp and intelligent but his jowls and throat gone froggy

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

President Clinton, this guy is sharp. Boy, he gave Hillary the most romantic Valentine's gift today, a huge rose garden. Where would he get that?

And the beauty of Susanna Jones in red Burns in my heart a love-fire sharp like pain. Sweet silver trumpets, Jesus! LANGSTON HUGHES Elegie

Justice ... is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it judges sharply what is right and what is wrong. On the other hand, judgment based on justice naturally calls forth a counter-judgment as a reaction from the side so-judged. Accordingly, we fall into an endless conflict and struggle between judge and the judged.

And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

moteris panaši ? kat?, kaip ir aistra panaši ? kat?. Jos leten?l?s minkštos, ta?iau slepia aštrius nagelius, negailestingai susmingan?ius iki širdies. Moteris iš ties? panaši ? kat?, nes katei taip pat malonu vilioti auk? ir nageliais suteikti jai skausmo, tas žaidimas jai niekada nepabosta. Vos aukai susmukus, kat? j? su?da ir tipena ieškoti naujos aukos.

Repartee is what you wish you'd said.

Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).

Logic is a kitchen grater.

A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.

Her invitation wasn't to pleasure, but to struggle, hard and sharp, closer to murder than love. If you threw yourself on her, it would be like throwing yourself from the parapet of a skyscraper. You would do it with a scream. You couldn't expect to rise again. Your teeth would be driven into your skull like nails into a pine board and your back would be broken. You wouldn't even have time to sweat or close your eyes.

Gwladus, my honey, bring us food. Bring us a lot of it. Your lady is all bone; her face looks sharp enough to cut cheese.