These cutting quotes will inspire you. Given to or designed for cutting especially, the action of cutting something.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging cutting quotes, cutting sayings, and cutting proverbs.
Best Cutting Quotes
- “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~ Robert H. Schuller , Cutting quotes negative
- “A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” ~ Herb Caen
- “I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.” ~ Milton Friedman
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“I don’t like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.” ~ Andy Summers
- “Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.” ~ John Berger
- “The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ~ Jacob Bronowski
- “Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That’s what I was committed to doing.” ~ Chris Christie
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“Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “I’m a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.” ~ Geraldine Ferraro
- “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can’t be the cutting edge for change.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
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“It’s interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.” ~ Faye Dunaway
- “Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We’re out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.” ~ Hilary Rosen
- “From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We’re making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.” ~ Jim Doyle
- “Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.” ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
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“Whenever we don’t turn the ball over, we’re pretty productive. When you’re turning the ball over, you’re cutting down on offensive opportunities.” ~ Eric Snow
- “Sadly, the President’s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country’s severe fiscal problems.” ~ Carl Levin
- “Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.” ~ Jim Rogers
- “By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans’ services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.” ~ Dan Lipinski
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“The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.” ~ Harold Ramis
- “In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.” ~ Terry Brooks
- “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.” ~ Rebecca Miller
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“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?” ~ Lilian Jackson Braun
- “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” ~ Yogi Berra
- “Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don’t work.” ~ Zach Wamp
- “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” ~ John W. Gardner
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“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.” ~ Paul Goldberger
- “We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.” ~ Ken Follett
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“I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.” ~ Alfred Hitchcock
- “I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “I’m coming to Washington D.C. to do the people’s work, and the people’s work has to do with – reducing spending, and –
cutting budgets, and – and trying to get a grip on the size of government.” ~ Ken Buck - “Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.” ~ Carl Jung
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“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” ~ Finley Peter Dunne
- “A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “Let me first say that I don’t think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.” ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
- “The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.” ~ Jonathan Swift
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“Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.” ~ James McBride
- “Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.” ~ Darren Aronofsky
- “And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.” ~ George W. Bush
- “Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.” ~ Adrienne Clarkson
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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ~ Diane Arbus
- “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
- “When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don’t eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld
- “That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.” ~ Michael Berryman
- “The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.” ~ John Spencer
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“One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef” ~ Marg Helgenberger
- “It’s amazing to me that they’re cutting physical education programs in the school systems.” ~ Shannon Miller
- “Today, it’s very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.” ~ Huey Lewis
- “When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.” ~ Betty Dodson
- “There’s a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.” ~ Wangari Maathai
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“We’re traditional and don’t do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we’re holding our own.” ~ Jaclyn Smith
- “To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it’s actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.” ~ Mario Batali
- “I’m a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I’m an old guy.” ~ Warren Cuccurullo
- “We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced – what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.” ~ Dave Obey
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“There is no short cut to acheivement.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.” ~ Rebecca West
- “If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.” ~ Garth Brooks
- “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” ~ Coco Chanel
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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.” ~ Charles Jaffe