Sword Quotes

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.