#knives

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#knives #like #lives #look #poets

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. ↗

— James Joyce

#death #history #knives #murder #rome

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fragile-love #glass #heartbreak #knives #love

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#book signings #guns #had #i #knives

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. ↗

— David Coverdale

#criticism #critics #dine #get #gets

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ↗

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. ↗

— Martin Yan

#drawer #especially #fact #full #i

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#always #army #does #go #i

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. ↗

— Charles Manson

#come #help #i #just #knives