Cutting Quotes

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Ive learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.