Kitchen Knife/common Kitchen Knives

Famous quotes containing the words kitchen, knife, common and/or knives:

    They know they are about to die,
    but breathe like premies, in and out,
    upon my kitchen table.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Why use an ox-slaughtering knife to kill chickens?
    Chinese proverb.

    ... exchanging platitudes, as Frenchmen do, for the pleasure of feeling their mouths full of the good meat of common sense.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed
    Charles Simic (b. 1938)