Cutting Quotes

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

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.