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“The Waltons was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.”

Years Important Cutting Who I Am Wander Family And Friends Transforming Wandering Around

Author:Ralph Waite

“With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.”

Sometimes Enough Too Much Cutting Balance Fishes Thick Rice Vinegar Sushi

Author:Nobu Matsuhisa

“We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.”

“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”

“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”

Ifs Heart Cutting Independence Ties Strengthening Bandages

Book:Dance to the Piper

Source: Dance to the Piper

“I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]”

Action Cutting Function Vices Iron Sharpness Valet

Author:Horace

“He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”

Years Death Cutting Twenties Suicide Years Of Life

Author:Horace

“It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.”

Action Cutting One Thing

Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

“I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.”

Way Looks Bits Black White Cutting Changed Hair Black And White I've Changed Monochrome

Author:Ellie Goulding

“The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.”

Firsts Used Cutting Hair Foundation Reports Rome Emperor Razors Augustus Evermore Barbers

Author:Pliny the Elder

“There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.”

Cutting Knives Blades Treachery

Book:Puck. In Maremma

Source: Puck. In Maremma

“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.”

Doe Fighting Principles Support Cutting Kings Republican England Patriotic Loyal Bully Englishmen Manly

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.”

Hard Body Purpose Courage Fire Cutting Changed Capable Brilliant Useless Diamond Polish

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.”

Men Cutting Consolation Turkeys Wrong Man

Author:Charles Dickens

“I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.”

Shows Would Be Cutting Acceptance Lows Hollywood Sorry Rejection Shallow Norm Show Business Absorbing Oddities Letdowns

Author:Joan Rivers

“There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.”

Ifs Feels Years Wells Has Beens Age Lost Cutting Youth Periods Quiet Painful Nervous Sensitive Mature Repose Nervous System Tolerable Steadiness

Author:William Hazlitt

“A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.”

Simple Cutting Accounts Filled Deeds Suits Costumes Vulgar Ornaments Filled Up

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There are words which cut like steel.”

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.”

Use Animal Cutting Pride Proud Tools Fingers Ridiculous Priests

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!”

Facts Body Spirit Sex Memories Cutting Loneliness Supreme Remedy Communion Pathetic Ephemeral Short Cuts

Book:No Signposts in the Sea

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.”

Men Evil Grows Sin Company Cutting Growing Conversation Penalties Bad Man

Book:Laws

Source: Laws

“Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.”

Helping Use Shows Light Poetry Situation Cutting Easier Prose Poetry Is Lasers

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Ends Certain Process Cutting Particular Goes On Spots

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.”

Soul Heaven Path Cutting Pure Glory Wings Native Pure Soul

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.”

Feels Artist Cutting Doors Ears Nails

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.”

Men Want Country Cutting Blood Court Slave Dear Selfish Throat Honey Bees Toil Industrious Fawns

Book:The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre

Source: The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre

“the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.”

Past Behinds Mistake Cutting Doors Acceptance Wind Habit Invaluable Past Mistakes

Book:Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

“Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.”

Education Cutting Modern Fingers Rings Wrists Modern Education

Author:John Sterling

“Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.”

Enough Cutting Talent Discipline Constant Hopefully Meat Dull Knives

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.”

Hard Individual Force Process Work Study Successful Cutting Talent Hard Work Tables Constant Dull Knives Salt Commodity Cheaper Honing

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.”

Doe Night Cutting Tired Desperation Asparagus

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!”

Self Hands Cutting Self Love Autumn Lotuses

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.”

Feels Force Understanding Cutting Mines Disease Appetite Decay Provision Apprehension Infatuated

Author:Bill Vaughan

“France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.”

Cutting France Thrice

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.”

Shows Certain Sin Levels Class Cutting Mere Shortcomings Short Life

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”

Way Doubt Cutting Materials Achievement Reflection Fellows Busy Affair Relief Throat Razors

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“Cut your coat according to your cloth.”

Cutting Humility Coats Vietnamese

Book:A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht

Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht

“In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.”

Thinking Way Giving May States Fall Water Cutting Policy Rivers Filled Wave Weather Boat Foul Rise And Fall

Author:John Selden

“Republicans are definitely pro-birth (they’ll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in), but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?”

Children Support Cutting Baby Birth Republican Vote Funding Pro Life

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.”

World Reason Cutting Huge Edges Reason Why Fuel No Reason Efficient Vehicle Cutting Edge

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.”

House Pay Clear Cutting Increase Dollars Including Congress Spending Defense Billions Significant Budgets Disability Healthcare Veteran

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.”

Fall Cutting Connections Vices Branches Trunks

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Believe Wells Might Today Know How Cutting Style Scene Don't Believe Definitions Narrative Editors Truck Dump

Author:Gordon Willis

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

Ifs Men May Running Lasts Desire Grows Cutting Weak Let Me Painful Generous Stem Affliction Vines Superfluous

Author:Joseph Hall

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.”

World Cutting Spring Edges Shears

Author:Erica Jong

“Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.”

People Way Names Cutting Size Nicknames

Book:Under My Skin

Source: Under My Skin