Cutting Quotes

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

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.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

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

They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

I want to be cutting-edge.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

It's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.