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The scalpel won't make you happy. -- Demi Moore
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. -- Patricia Cornwell
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. -- Michael Ondaatje
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. -- Ed Koch
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. -- Irving Penn
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. -- Jonathan Davis
You can't find the soul with a scalpel. -- Gustave Flaubert
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. -- Maxwell Maltz
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club. -- Matt Chandler
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, -- Michael Ondaatje
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. -- Vernor Vinge
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. -- Jay Samit
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser -- Michael Caine
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. -- Alexander Eliot
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After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. -- Richard Matheson
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. -- Artie Shaw
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. -- Diana Butler Bass
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. -- Irving Penn
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. -- Nicolas Chamfort
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. -- Robert Hooke
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. -- Tommy Bolt
If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help. -- Tenzin Palmo
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) -- Stephen Batchelor

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