Razors Quotes

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

Anything can happen with a razor.

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.