(12 quotes found)
“"Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.”
John Updike
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
Truman Capote
“Scissors with blades less than four inches (10 centimeters) long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that are less than seven inches (18 centimeters) will be removed from the prohibited items list on December 22.”
Kip Hawley
“Just as the tongue, made of flesh and blood, is protected within the scissors of the thirty-two teeth - who thinks that the power lies in the flesh or the scissors? Everything is in the Power of the Lord. In just the same way, when someone slanders the Saint, the Lord preserves the honor of His servant.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.”
Patrick Keeler
“Scissors in the Sand.”
Ian McCulloch
“Scissors with blades less than four inches long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that are less than seven inches will be removed from the prohibited items list on December 22.”
“Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.”
Sydney Smith
“Anybody can do this. As long as they can use scissors, have an iron, and can use it without burning themselves!”
Lora Barshon
“She jumped into the back sliding door, I guess, and she found a pair of scissors or something and he's taking off and she's telling him to stop.”
Mike Jones
