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Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.
Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
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'.
... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.
If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.
To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.
Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.
Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)