Dull Knives Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more terminal for the human spirit, than loneliness. — Shane K.P. O'Neill

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. — John Hope

The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened.
Enemies of the heir, beware. — J.K. Rowling

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. — Mindy Kaling

You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up. — Chuck Pierce

An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron
five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one; five brains, counting Joe-Jim as two and Bobo as none
five brains and five knives to overthrow an entire culture. — Robert A. Heinlein

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs. — Franz Grillparzer

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for. — Horace Kephart

To put all this in the form of another traditional metaphor, aesthetic styles - patterns for communicating feeling and thought - become dull with use, like carving knives, and since dullness is the chief enemy of art, each generation of artists must find new ways of slicing the fat off reality. — John Gardner

There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives. — Iain Banks

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us. — Jerome Lawrence

In alignment. Their video matches their audio. — Robin S. Sharma

This first hour of arrival before one was again pierced by knives and arrows - this strange animal feeling, this breath reaching far and coming from afar, this breeze, without emotion yet, along the streets of the heart, past the dull fires of facts, past the nail-studded cross of bygone days and past the barbed hooks of the future, this caesura, the silence within oscillation, the moment of pause, most open and most secret form of being, the unemphatic beat of eternity in the very transitoriness of the world — Erich Maria Remarque

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth. — Kingfisher Pink

We be warriors in this war of life
Forging battle-knives as we fight
Never-ceasing to sharpen the dull blades
Our own Heroes in not so shining armour'"

-Lost Voyagers- — Chamindra Warusawitharane

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

Sometimes I feel bad for the girls because they aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. In fact, they're more like a couple of dull butter knives that were left in the grass outside of the shed. — Charlie McDowell

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk. — Joe Eszterhas

Yes." She smiled, liking the word. "What I feel like right now - I'd compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It's a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light." Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart. — Nalini Singh

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often. — Gail Simmons

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. — Will Rogers

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it. — Nevil Shute

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. — Lin Yutang

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing — James Brown

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. — James Brown

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. — John Podhoretz