Axed Quotes & Sayings

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC ... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead. — Andrew Davies

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand. — Honeysuckle Weeks

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow. — Margaret Atwood

You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here? — Amanda Hocking

A girl needs to eat ... ," she said.
"A girl needs to follow the rules here, or she gets axed. — Alyse M. Gardner

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed — Winston S. Churchill

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Flying visits don't work,' Tom said as we drove home, 'not for a place you've really loved.' I don't think he expected us to be back and around much, and maybe this was his way of saying he'd understand that too. — Ian Walthew

Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it. — Rebecca McCann

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief. — Amanda Palmer

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father
my real father
is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver with a cloth doily. My sisters clench their knives. — Karen Russell

She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it. — Kathryn Stockett

At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works. — Jamie Smith

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy! — George Carlin