Unsharpen Quotes & Sayings

I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the way of working when there is no dialogue. You sort of depend on the music to be that, especially when there's lyrics in the music. — Matthew Barney

Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first — Julian Barnes

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally. — Bryant McGill

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Jazz closed his eyes. — Barry Lyga

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.' — Jesse Ventura

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs ... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming. — Harry Shearer

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. — Maya Lin

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgement - all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single individual ... The greatest scientific deed of her life - proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them - owes its accomplishment not merely to bold intuition but to a devotion and tenacity in execution under the most extreme hardships imaginable, such as the history of experimental science has not often witnessed. — Albert Einstein

Sooner or later he'll see that it can't really work out. Werewolves and humans ... we've both got too much to lose. Sooner or later I'll have to leave him.
But for one day at a time, let it be tomorrow. — Terry Pratchett

It is not necessary that every mountain has a precious stone's mine, every elephants forehead is adorned with the mother of pearl, every place is inhabited by gentlemen and every forest contains sandalwood trees. In other words, this world is inhabited by people of different characteristics. We must, therefore, develop contacts only with gentlemen and superior persons. This will ensure fulfilment of the desired work. — R.P. Jain

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end. — John Sulston

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good. — Michael R. Solomon