As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.
I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.
There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.
He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?
With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth. With my lips today,With my lips alone. . .
I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed. 38 Special. (Katra)
Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. She is gone, and they cannot track her, and I have no idea where to go or what to do next, and the only person I can imagine speaking my agony to is the one person who cannot know.
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut. . . I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.