Knife Throwing Act

Famous quotes containing the words knife, throwing and/or act:

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

“It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)