Cutting Quotes

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (George Burns)
The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her She was cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. View quote
Herb Caen
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. View quote
Milton Friedman
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. View quote
Andy Summers
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. (Bill Shuster)
Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine. View quote
Hilary Rosen
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems. View quote
Shannon Miller
If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. View quote
Wanda Sykes
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy. View quote
Warren Cuccurullo
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion. View quote
John Adams
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. View quote
Ayn Rand
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. View quote
Colin Firth
The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn. (Louis Armstrong)
It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. View quote
Margaret Atwood
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage. View quote
Stanley Kubrick