Quotes of Sharp - somelinesforyou

“ The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ”

- Solomon Short

“ I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. ”

- James Beard

“ The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ He who knows that this body s like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death. ”

- The Dhammapada

“ Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there. ”

- Frederick Frieseke

“ Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. ”

- Terence

“ Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ History — its what those bitter old men write. ”

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“ I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women. ”

- Lea DeLaria

“ Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. ”

- Warren Buffett

“ What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. ”

- Unknown

“ A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ Parody is homage gone sour. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ My appetite is whetted. ”

- Jack Kemp

“ In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious. ”

- Sun tzu

“ The sharp employ the sharp. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable… ”

- Ben Folds
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