2,939 Quotes About Cutting

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

The great thing about the Internet is - our show is totally modular. Every piece can be popped in and out. They're relatively short pieces. They're not long. And we can say, "here' s one way to market it. Take these pieces out of the show and put them on the Internet." And we're doing dirtier cuts and put those on the Internet. It's a real great way to market the show. This is finally the year a show like this can happen.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.