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  • I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream. -- Marc Jacobs
  • Truth is brighter than Light Falsehood darker than night Revenge is keener than Axe and Love is softer than melting wax -- Cassandra Clare
  • There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work. -- Dov Davidoff
  • Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind. -- Nanao Sakaki
  • One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western. -- Ken Marino
  • One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western. -- Ken Marino
  • My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.' -- Adam DeVine
  • Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein
  • I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
  • When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe. -- Alyssa Sutherland
  • In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer. -- Sharon Osbourne
  • I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads. -- Phil Anselmo
  • I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con. -- Steve-O
  • The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. -- Robert Moog
  • Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood. -- Victor Hugo
  • Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us. -- Rand Paul
  • Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
  • At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out. -- Al Franken
  • If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. -- Lord Byron
  • More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein
  • I worked with AXE Hair to do a promo shoot for the ESPYs and ESPN - it's all about having girl-approved hair. They have a newer product out there with the hair stuff - shampoo, conditioner and all the styling products that they have. -- Matthew Stafford
  • The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe. -- Phil Anselmo
  • The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week. -- Rob Manuel
  • Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you. -- Sloane Crosley
  • I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. -- Michel Leiris
  • An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish. -- George Santayana
  • When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off. -- Gary Snyder
  • Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. -- Rumi
  • Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. -- J. K. Rowling
  • A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us. -- Franz Kafka
  • A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. -- Saadi
  • No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. -- William Shakespeare
  • Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. -- William Shakespeare
  • Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. -- Franz Kafka
  • A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. -- J. M. Coetzee
  • The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. -- Jonathan Swift
  • It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. -- Walter Lippmann
  • Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. -- Anne Bradstreet
  • In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia. -- Aneurin Bevan
  • The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. -- Franz Kafka
  • You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move. -- Ueli Steck
  • Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe. -- George R. R. Martin
  • This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. -- Philip Larkin
  • To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe. -- Anthony Liccione
  • Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe. -- Brian South
  • Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer. -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
  • For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. -- John Smit
  • An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. -- Honore de Balzac
  • The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. -- Thomas Paine
  • He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. -- Andrew Marvell
  • West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down. -- Bob Marley
  • The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me. -- Robert Cray
  • Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. -- John Milton
  • If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. -- Pete Seeger
  • You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. -- John Amaechi
  • The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. -- Paula Poundstone
  • It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. -- William Merritt Chase
  • I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it. -- Horace Kephart
  • A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. -- Aldo Leopold
  • Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring. -- Gary Jarman
  • The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe. -- Mors Kochanski
  • Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part. -- David Levithan
  • If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude. -- Ralphie May
  • We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!' -- Brian Posehn
  • Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi
  • If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. -- Franz Kafka
  • A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down -- Gautama Buddha
  • Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised. -- Nora Roberts
  • Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage. -- Richard Proenneke
  • You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. -- James Agee
  • The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground. -- Louis Simpson
  • Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line. -- Arthur Lismer
  • Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away! -- William Blake
  • Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now. -- Raymond Carver
  • Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology. -- Sam Keen
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