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Cutting Quotes (page 25)

William Shakespeare quote: "There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done."
There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done. William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens quote: "has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you,..."
has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out Charles Dickens
I nearly committed a terrible sin," said Brutha. "I nearly ate fruit on a fruitless day."That's a terrible thing, a terrible thing," said Om. "Now cut the melon. Terry Prachett
Casy gathered in his canvas sneakers and shoved his bare feet into them. "I ain't got your confidence," he said. "I'm always scared there's wire or glass under the dust. I don't know nothin' I hate so much as a cut toe. John Steinbeck
Samuel Johnson quote: "Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the..."
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. Samuel Johnson
I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade-the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no... Charlotte Bronte
J. D. Salinger quote: "I cut going there entirely, gradually."
I cut going there entirely, gradually. J. D. Salinger
If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,’ said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, ‘I am waiting to go. Dorothy Dunnett
Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic... Virginia Woolf
Only cut off a buttock of each of those ladies,' said he,'and you'll fare extremely well; if you must go to it again, there will be the same entertainment a few days hence; heaven will accept of so charitable an action, and send you relief. Voltaire
Bob Dylan quote: "A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they..."
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'. Bob Dylan
The wind blew, from what quarter I know not, but it lifted the half-grown leaves so that there was a flash of silver-grey in the air. It was the time between the lights when colors undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in windowpanes like the beat of an excitable heart; when for some reason the beauty of the world revealed and yet soon to perish ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf
Jodi Picoult quote: "A bus cuts the world in half..."
A bus cuts the world in half... Jodi Picoult
Colin Powell quote: "Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we..."
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. Colin Powell
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature Mark Twain

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