#knife

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip! ↗

— Keith Richards

#knife-fights #rock-music #home

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#knife #life #love #life

THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #planet #space #space-travel #the-ask-and-the-answer

Drake was a man who retrieved things for people. His reputation was well-known, and people came to him not only for his reliability, but also his discretion. Certainly that was why he was here now, being offered this ungodly sum of money to go back in time. ↗

— Dennis B. Boyer

#money

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks. ↗

— James Jones

#movies #violence #movies

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs. ↗

— Gordon Banks

#goal #knife #level #like #ribs

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cooks #could #each #eating #edible

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife. ↗

— Joe Valachi

#gun #knife #live #you

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bowl #brim #fill #keep #knife

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#also #bring #cut #healing #historical