I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite; but these things did not surprise anyone very much. But everybody was astonished about the scissor cuts, which seemed a more unusual accomplishment. The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue.
Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!
She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.
We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors?
Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
I thought you could play. . . You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.
Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.
You always need a bit of low-tech. You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things. . . . The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.