Cutting Quotes

When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

I have good feet but they always get cut off in photo shoots.

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

There was a girl I loved in high school - but never spoke to. Cut to my five-year reunion: I'm an entirely different person.

There are lots of secretaries who send off special envoys and yes, say, "Do a great job," and that's fine until it costs you something. And then they cut you off.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.

The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

Then I will tape the sets and even though I'm not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here's a little tip Howard - cut back on the Red Bull.

Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scenes, they don't want it.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.