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Quotes About Sharp

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.
~ George R. R. Martin
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
~ Louisa May Alcott
For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.
~ Grant Bowler
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.
~ Joe Biden
Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.
~ Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.
~ Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
~ Don Henley
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
~ John George Nicolay
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
~ William Bradford
But, golly gee, javelins are sharp! I shouldn't harp on such things, But I hope there's not an accident! You know, excrement does happen. Even to the sons of kings.
~ David Elliott
she seemed cold—like a predator eyeing its prey.
~ David Lagercrantz
The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
~ H. L. Mencken
You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.
~ Natalie Dormer
Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.
~ Maureen F. McHugh, Nekropolis
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
~ James Thurber
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
~ Moss Hart
Silly me, thinking you actually had potential. I thought, Finally, she's realized she's a vampire. Now we're getting somewhere. But now you're just a big fluffy bunny with sharp teeth.
~ Julie Kagawa, The Forever Song
My comebacks aren't nearly as sharp as my shiv. Come inside and I'll show you.
~ Cassia Leo, Anti-Romance
He wanted to know what I thought. It was the opening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was sharp and insane.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I've found that most people are stupid and unobservant.
~ Alex Flinn
When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath - things that seemed more shocking - and then, of course, eventually I would find bands and writers who were laying things out very clearly and whose words felt very sharp to the touch and sharp to your feelings.
~ Ryan Adams
Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.
~ Sarah Paulson