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  • Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks. -- Tom Douglas
  • My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge. -- Terence Stamp
  • The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap -- Aaron Allston
  • The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. -- Aaron Allston
  • Kenzie's head jerked up, her eyes brighteningIrland?""Yay!" Razor crowed, bouncing up and down on Kierran shoulderSheep!" -- Julie Kagawa
  • 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. -- Mike Tyson
  • The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat. -- Mark Twain
  • When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily. -- J. Budziszewski
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  • I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. -- Brunello Cucinelli
  • If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. -- A. E. Housman
  • Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. -- John Maeda
  • I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive. -- Scott Stossel
  • You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades. -- James Surowiecki
  • I really try to spend as little time as possible on grooming. I think if you have a good moisturizer and a solid razor to clean up the beard, you're golden. -- Chris Evans
  • There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost. -- James Collins
  • I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor. -- Elisha Cuthbert
  • Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. -- A. E. Housman
  • Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. -- Charles Edward Montague
  • I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement. -- Richard Mille
  • I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. -- Tom Stoppard
  • I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape. -- Dileep Rao
  • My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy. -- Tom Douglas
  • You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. -- Michael Caine
  • It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use. -- Lance Gross
  • When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do. -- Tamora Pierce
  • Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card. -- Steven Hall
  • In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc. -- Kurt Braunohler
  • Anything can happen with a razor. -- Laura Kightlinger
  • Why don't you swallow razor blades? -- Lou Reed
  • Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality. -- Richard Neutra
  • I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness. -- Elton John
  • I would give my best quartet for a good razor, -- Joseph Haydn
  • Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies! -- Stephen Sondheim
  • Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness... -- Brad Thor
  • Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. -- Homer
  • We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. -- Robert Lowell
  • A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke. -- Jake Johannsen
  • Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. -- Thornton Wilder
  • Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression? -- David Bowie
  • Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge. -- Otto Rehhagel
  • I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin. -- Madeleine Kuderick
  • Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. -- John Lydon
  • got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been. -- Tori Amos
  • The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching! -- David Pogue
  • We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light, -- Ichabod
  • Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. -- Bette Midler
  • Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape. -- John Updike
  • Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry. -- Anthony Jeselnik
  • The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. -- Hermann Goring
  • Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever -- Dave Regis
  • The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible. -- William Shakespeare
  • Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved. -- Yoko Ono
  • He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser. -- Henri Michaux
  • All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade -- Noel Gallagher
  • She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet. -- Tom Waits
  • But I so want to walk that razor's edge, Take feeling to a whole new level. -- Ellen Hopkins
  • Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
  • He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. -- Robert M. Hensel
  • Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor's edge Of ecstasy or disaster. -- Scott Hastie
  • I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. -- Frank Miller
  • Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end. -- Priya Ardis
  • Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be. -- Alexander Stubb
  • We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge. -- Rick Yancey
  • We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge. -- Simonides of Ceos
  • C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. -- Brian Kernighan
  • And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something. -- Grant Morrison
  • To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -- Alexander Pope
  • A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit. -- King C. Gillette
  • because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. -- Jacques Ellul
  • I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave. -- George R. R. Martin
  • A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached. -- King C. Gillette
  • All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes. -- Spiro T. Agnew
  • Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. -- James Joyce
  • She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. -- Amy Efaw
  • I'm gonna draw a picture. a picture with a twist... I'll draw it with a razor blade. I'll draw it on my wrist... -- Kat Calhoun
  • The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was. -- John Updike
  • 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. -- Bob Dylan
  • We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it. -- Doug Sanders
  • Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp. -- David Sedaris
  • Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. -- Jacques Ellul
  • I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. -- Thornton Wilder
  • I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action. -- David Ginola
  • 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. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp. -- Lauren Oliver
  • The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks. -- Terry Pratchett
  • 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. -- Andy Biersack
  • Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade. -- Kristin Hannah
  • Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green. -- Gunvor Hofmo
  • Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. -- Christopher Paolini
  • On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being. -- Thornton Wilder
  • 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. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh. -- Aubrey Dark
  • Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple. -- Jay Leno
  • Many times I felt I was on the razor's edge. I never quite knew which way the wind was going to blow when I asked a question to [Osho]. -- Milarepa
  • 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. -- Marlon Brando
  • Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. -- Michael Bassey
  • Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'. -- Jeffrey Bernard
  • 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. -- Mark Joyner
  • Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him. -- Annette Curtis Klause
  • Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight. -- Emily Giffin
  • Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself. -- Groucho Marx
  • If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. -- Maya Angelou
  • I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me. -- J.R. Rain
  • 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. -- Edward Young
  • Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection. -- Jo-Ann Mapson
  • If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser. -- Frederick Lenz
  • If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser. -- Frederick Lenz
  • I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love. -- Roberto Bolano
  • Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time. -- Molly Ivins
  • If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son. -- William Upski Wimsatt
  • 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. -- Lauren Oliver
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