Pointy End Quotes & Sayings

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?' — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first.
She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength. — George R R Martin

This one's easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. — Neil Kinnock

First rule, stick them with the pointy end! — George R R Martin

G.I. Joe boxers!' Apollo screamed. 'OH - oh, I can't even... HAHAHAHAHA!' 'Aphrodite,' Athena giggled. 'You look simply lovely.' The gods couldn't stop laughing. Soon they were rolling on the floor, wiping tears from their eyes, taking photos with their phones to post on Tumblr. — Rick Riordan

What do I do?" Asked the princess.
"You keep your head down."
She looked at me petulantly. "Like hell I will. If we're going to die, I'm going down fighting, even if I'm terrible with a weapon."
"Fair enough," I said, handing her a cutlass. She swished it around.
"Pointy end toward the bad guy, right?"
"Right. — Jasper Fforde

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing. — Olavo De Carvalho

It is much easier to drive without having an accident. — Alec Issigonis

The book also says that coping with difficult times is like being in a conical shell-shaped spiral and there is a point at each turn that is very painful and difficult. That is your particular problem or sore spot. When you are at the narrow, pointy end of the spiral you come back to that situation very often as the rotations are quite small. As you go round, you will go through the troubled time less and less frequently but still you must come back to it, so you shouldn't feel when it happens that you are back to square one. Trouble — Helen Fielding

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. — Maya Lin

This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks! — Maggie Q

If you're going to carry a dagger, you need to learn to use it."
I frowned at him. "I know how to use it. I stick the pointy end in things I don't like. — Kalayna Price

The only people who think war is a glorious game are the bloody fools who've never had to be on the pointy end of it. — Alexandra Fuller

You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks. — Gangaji

Stick them with the pointy end. — Anonymous