#cutting

She waited in the ward thinking what I had thought in the same circumstances, that this was not a place much designated to help people like us, the semi-talented, sometime wayward overachievers who got a little carried away with the X-ACTO knife when we got a bad grade, or otherwise tripped on the latter of betterment. ↗

— Norah Vincet

#voluntary-madness #design

There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#colton #cutter #cutting #escape #falling

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#camera #cutting #down #everybody #front

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#cutting edge #edge #hand #mind

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. ↗

— James Buchan

#authors #cutting #disgust #effects #favourite

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor. ↗

— Judi Dench

#cutting #film #floor #i #know

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ↗

— Henry Ford

#away #business #competition #costs #cutting

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did. ↗

— Randy West

#classes #cutting #day #did #fascination

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. ↗

— Rebecca West

#bear #best #cutting #dark #dark places

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#cutting room #floor #i #line #right