Cutting Quotes

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

His words sliced through my heart, cutting it into little pathetic pieces.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.