Cutting Quotes

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.

I'm always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I'm a chatty guy.

It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

On other shows when they get to the end of the scene, they yell 'Cut!' On Whose Line, we yell 'That's Enough!'

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me.

Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.