William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"These words are razors to my wounded heart."
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Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"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."
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."
Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
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"Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine."
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"A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades."
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"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."
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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"We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it."
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"Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor"
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"The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible."
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"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."
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"Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine."
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"And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something."
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"Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty."
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"March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count."
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"Why don't you swallow razor blades?"
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