Quotes about Sharp

May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon Votes: 4

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. Votes: 4

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart. Votes: 3

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. Votes: 3

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. Votes: 3

Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and Votes: 3

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. Votes: 3

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. Votes: 3

Rose is in red, But never in blue, Sharp as a thorn, Fights like one too. Votes: 3

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning. Votes: 3

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. Votes: 3

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp. Votes: 3

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul. Votes: 3

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point. Votes: 3

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister. Votes: 3

But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Votes: 3

What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it. Votes: 3

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach. Votes: 3

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. Votes: 2

In nature there are few sharp lines. Votes: 2

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. Votes: 2

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. Votes: 2

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. Votes: 2

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Votes: 2

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Votes: 2

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. Votes: 2

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. Votes: 2

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Votes: 2

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. Votes: 2

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes. Votes: 2

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. Votes: 2

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. Votes: 2

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. Votes: 2

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. Votes: 2

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Votes: 2

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. Votes: 2

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. Votes: 2

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. Votes: 2

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. Votes: 2

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick. Votes: 2

I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. Votes: 2

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago. Votes: 2

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! Votes: 2

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind. Votes: 2

A sharp spear needs no polish. Votes: 1

May your swords stay sharp -Brom Votes: 1

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. Votes: 1

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. Votes: 1

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. Votes: 0

The sharp employ the sharp. Votes: 0

Hungry ears are sharp ones. Votes: 0

The directors are always sharp. It's true. Votes: 0

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. Votes: 0

In nature there are few sharp lines Votes: 0

Bravery is often too sharp a spur. Votes: 0

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural. Votes: 0

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality. Votes: 0

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Votes: 0

Service is the ultimate edge. Keep it sharp. Votes: 0

Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required. Votes: 0

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. Votes: 0

Tim Howard is as sharp as a tank. Votes: 0

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. Votes: 0

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. Votes: 0

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"! Votes: 0

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Votes: 0

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth? Votes: 0

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. Votes: 0

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle. Votes: 0

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. Votes: 0

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank Votes: 0

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. Votes: 0

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp. Votes: 0

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. Votes: 0

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry. Votes: 0

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. Votes: 0

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. Votes: 0

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. Votes: 0

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. Votes: 0

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. Votes: 0

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane. Votes: 0

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one Votes: 0

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. Votes: 0

If you ain't killin' 'em, maybe your point ain't sharp enough. Votes: 0

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. Votes: 0

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind. Votes: 0

Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that. Votes: 0

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner. Votes: 0

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing Votes: 0

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing. Votes: 0

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. Votes: 0

He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp. Votes: 0

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates. Votes: 0

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone Votes: 0

Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs. Votes: 0

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be. Votes: 0

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind. Votes: 0

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted. Votes: 0

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. Votes: 0

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp. Votes: 0

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. Votes: 0

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody. Votes: 0

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief. Votes: 0

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. Votes: 0

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view. Votes: 0

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. Votes: 0

Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese. Votes: 0

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. Votes: 0

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. Votes: 0

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. Votes: 0

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for Votes: 0

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book. Votes: 0

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something. Votes: 0

I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest. Votes: 0

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment. Votes: 0

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off. Votes: 0

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people. Votes: 0

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. Votes: 0

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children. Votes: 0

It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp. Votes: 0

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. Votes: 0

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp. Votes: 0

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. Votes: 0

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. Votes: 0

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. Votes: 0

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.' Votes: 0

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. Votes: 0

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp! Votes: 0

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. Votes: 0

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working. Votes: 0

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp. Votes: 0

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. Votes: 0

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. Votes: 0

In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell. Votes: 0

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. Votes: 0

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. Votes: 0

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. Votes: 0

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. Votes: 0

She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth. Votes: 0

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. Votes: 0

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. Votes: 0

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. Votes: 0

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever Votes: 0

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. Votes: 0

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. Votes: 0

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. Votes: 0

Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects. Votes: 0

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. Votes: 0

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. Votes: 0

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 0

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. Votes: 0

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney. Votes: 0

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. Votes: 0

So, how do you kill a dragon? (Channon) With a very sharp sword. (Sebastian) Votes: 0

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. Votes: 0

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something. Votes: 0

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp. Votes: 0

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE. Votes: 0

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. Votes: 0

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. Votes: 0

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. Votes: 0

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting. Votes: 0

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. Votes: 0

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. Votes: 0

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. Votes: 0

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play. Votes: 0

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. Votes: 0

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife. Votes: 0

The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be. Votes: 0

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit. Votes: 0

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath Votes: 0

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. Votes: 0

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. Votes: 0

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing. Votes: 0

...always-the sharp,plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions') Votes: 0

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. Votes: 0

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it. Votes: 0

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife. Votes: 0

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. Votes: 0

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality. Votes: 0

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is. Votes: 0

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself. Votes: 0

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. Votes: 0

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play. Votes: 0

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. Votes: 0

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. Votes: 0

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. Votes: 0

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. Votes: 0

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man. Votes: 0

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. Votes: 0

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago. Votes: 0

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it. Votes: 0

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. Votes: 0

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Votes: 0

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. Votes: 0

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. Votes: 0

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. Votes: 0

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. Votes: 0

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. Votes: 0

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. Votes: 0

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Votes: 0

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. Votes: 0

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal Votes: 0

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. Votes: 0

I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots. Votes: 0

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. Votes: 0

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. Votes: 0

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. Votes: 0

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them. Votes: 0

Truth has sharp teeth, so do not expect anything beautiful (to see) when it smiles to you. Votes: 0

Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? Votes: 0

Eating healthy and keeping hydrated does wonders; it centers my mood and helps me keep a sharp mind. Votes: 0

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp. Votes: 0

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective. Votes: 0

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places. Votes: 0

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. Votes: 0

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed. Votes: 0

I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it. Votes: 0

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. Votes: 0

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester Votes: 0

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me. Votes: 0

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. Votes: 0

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp. Votes: 0

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. Votes: 0

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. Votes: 0

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong. Votes: 0

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. Votes: 0

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken. Votes: 0

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed Votes: 0

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Votes: 0

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. Votes: 0

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. Votes: 0

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. Votes: 0

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. Votes: 0

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. Votes: 0

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. Votes: 0

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others Votes: 0

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood. Votes: 0

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. Votes: 0

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be. Votes: 0

The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points. Votes: 0

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. Votes: 0

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars. Votes: 0

I stabbed her with the time. It was 8:00 sharp. Right through the heart, my love is punctual and pointy. Votes: 0

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. Votes: 0

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. Votes: 0

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end. Votes: 0

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. Votes: 0

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. Votes: 0

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. Votes: 0

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. Votes: 0

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts. Votes: 0

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Votes: 0

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often. Votes: 0

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. Votes: 0

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. Votes: 0

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much. Votes: 0

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. Votes: 0

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Votes: 0

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Votes: 0

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. Votes: 0

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. Votes: 0

My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity. Votes: 0

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. Votes: 0

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. Votes: 0

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable. Votes: 0

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. Votes: 0

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 0

My wife keeps me sharp. You know, she ain't going to let me get comfortable with this "Ice Cube" stuff. Votes: 0

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. Votes: 0

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. Votes: 0

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't? Votes: 0

Death was kind.He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child. Votes: 0

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. Votes: 0

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. Votes: 0

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you. Votes: 0

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own. Votes: 0

I'm sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing. Votes: 0

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. Votes: 0

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. Votes: 0

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. Votes: 0

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes. Votes: 0

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something. Votes: 0

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Votes: 0

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. Votes: 0

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. Votes: 0

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. Votes: 0

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. Votes: 0

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. Votes: 0

Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I don't get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian) Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon) Votes: 0

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. Votes: 0

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over. Votes: 0

Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness! Votes: 0

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. Votes: 0

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. Votes: 0

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? Votes: 0

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field. Votes: 0

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing. Votes: 0

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?). Votes: 0

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. Votes: 0

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him. Votes: 0

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events) Votes: 0

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you. Votes: 0

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Votes: 0

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. Votes: 0

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. Votes: 0

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. Votes: 0

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp. Votes: 0

She felt him pull her to him. His voice, acidic and sharp, buzzed in her ear"Soon...I'll be all that's left. Votes: 0

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations. Votes: 0

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale. Votes: 0

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much Votes: 0

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. Votes: 0

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. Votes: 0

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace. Votes: 0

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become. Votes: 0

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night. Votes: 0

People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent. Votes: 0

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. Votes: 0

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. Votes: 0

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. Votes: 0

You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time. Votes: 0

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. Votes: 0

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. Votes: 0

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry. Votes: 0

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions. Votes: 0

The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle. Votes: 0

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. Votes: 0

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need? Votes: 0

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. Votes: 0

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. Votes: 0

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately. Votes: 0

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. Votes: 0

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing. Votes: 0

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. Votes: 0

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush. Votes: 0

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes "” and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead. Votes: 0

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. Votes: 0

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision". Votes: 0

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil. Votes: 0

Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me Votes: 0

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. Votes: 0

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio. Votes: 0

Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy Votes: 0

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it. Votes: 0

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant Votes: 0

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp. Votes: 0

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. Votes: 0

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. Votes: 0

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute. Votes: 0

Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp. Votes: 0

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. Votes: 0

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere. Votes: 0

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir. Votes: 0

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids. Votes: 0

I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come. Votes: 0

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short. Votes: 0

It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever. Votes: 0

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. Votes: 0

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. Votes: 0

I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action. Votes: 0

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. Votes: 0

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse Votes: 0

His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever. Votes: 0

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp. Votes: 0

Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt. Votes: 0

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. Votes: 0

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early. Votes: 0

Thanks for everything." "As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp," Carter told him. Votes: 0

Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic. Votes: 0

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class Votes: 0

All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear. Votes: 0

The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks. Votes: 0

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? Votes: 0

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck. Votes: 0

I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart. Votes: 0

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony. Votes: 0

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. Votes: 0

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. Votes: 0

If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market. Votes: 0

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Votes: 0

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier. Votes: 0

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.. Votes: 0

Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. Votes: 0

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep. Votes: 0

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact. Votes: 0

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. Votes: 0

I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed. Votes: 0

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all. Votes: 0

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. Votes: 0

As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead. Votes: 0

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand. Votes: 0

I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed. Votes: 0

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil. Votes: 0

Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants. Votes: 0

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless. Votes: 0

I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.' Votes: 0

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness. Votes: 0

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand! Votes: 0

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions. Votes: 0

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight. Votes: 0

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. Votes: 0

Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes. Votes: 0

Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables. Votes: 0

I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands. Votes: 0

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. Votes: 0

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. Votes: 0

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun. Votes: 0

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. Votes: 0

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp. Votes: 0

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge. Votes: 0

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. Votes: 0

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now. Votes: 0

I'm an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it's a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that. Votes: 0

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Votes: 0

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words. Votes: 0

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook. Votes: 0

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. Votes: 0

What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved. Votes: 0

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings. Votes: 0

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp. Votes: 0

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. Votes: 0

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs? Votes: 0

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. Votes: 0

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. Votes: 0

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady.... Votes: 0

Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body. Votes: 0

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. Votes: 0

Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him. Votes: 0

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. Votes: 0

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters. Votes: 0

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall... Votes: 0

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. Votes: 0

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning. Votes: 0

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will. Votes: 0

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place. Votes: 0

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them Votes: 0

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. Votes: 0

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf. Votes: 0

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. Votes: 0

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form. Votes: 0

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. Votes: 0

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way. Votes: 0

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love. Votes: 0

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own. Votes: 0

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. Votes: 0

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews. Votes: 0

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades. Votes: 0

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now. Votes: 0

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind. Votes: 0

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Votes: 0

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human. Votes: 0

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully. Votes: 0

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp. Votes: 0

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me. Votes: 0

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age. Votes: 0

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp. Votes: 0

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation. Votes: 0

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough. Votes: 0

I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. Votes: 0

We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty. Votes: 0

Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding. Votes: 0

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever. Votes: 0

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds. Votes: 0

We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences. Votes: 0

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands. Votes: 0

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry. Votes: 0

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined. Votes: 0

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. Votes: 0

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Votes: 0

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring. Votes: 0

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns. Votes: 0

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he Votes: 0

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp. Votes: 0

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. Votes: 0

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more. Votes: 0

Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple. Votes: 0

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp. Votes: 0

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world. Votes: 0

I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp. Votes: 0

It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath. Votes: 0

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp. Votes: 0

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial. Votes: 0

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire. Votes: 0

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up. Votes: 0

I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object. Votes: 0

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. Votes: 0

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death. Votes: 0

Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp Votes: 0

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. Votes: 0

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage. Votes: 0

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued. Votes: 0

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. Votes: 0

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss. Votes: 0

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back. Votes: 0

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive. Votes: 0

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side. Votes: 0

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket! Votes: 0

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it. Votes: -1

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss... Votes: -1