Words matter. These are the best Sword Quotes from famous people such as Courtney Act, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Tom Fitton, Elvis Mitchell, Richard Dormer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn’t say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone’s house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace.
In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn’t missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.
Having a weapon like that means you’re pretty much in control of events. Nobody’s going to argue with a flaming sword.
L.A. malls are so different than a ‘mall’ mall like we probably all grew up with that had a food court and the sword shop, the yo-yo kiosk.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
With ‘Grimm,’ it’s a lot of fun for me to be able to play within the familiar world of fairy tales. As for satisfying my inner fantasy geek, anything that would have me wielding a sword or shooting a bow would be a dream.
Would I change anything? I don’t know, that’s a double edge sword for me.
I was fourteen, watching ‘The Princess Bride’ for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, ‘I want to learn to fence!’
In fact, it is my case that POFMA can easily become a proverbial Damocles sword that would hang over members of the public who do not support the government’s narrative or toe the government’s line.
I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I’m also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn’t chuck it in.
My words are my sword.
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
In America it’s live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
Robin McKinley’s ‘The Blue Sword’ was a defining book of my teen years, and I’d love to have more books like that in the world.
I gave ’em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
The Christmas-New Year’s holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one’s mental health.
I don’t carry sai blades for the sake of it in my personal life. I had to learn how to manipulate the sais. It was very tricky, because it’s a weird shape. It’s like a big fork. There’s a lot of ways that you can use them, but it’s not like a sword.
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
I didn’t read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock – the sword and sorcery novels – when I was about 13 or 14.
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.
Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
For ‘Manikarnika’, I’ve learnt horse riding and sword fighting, so I have gone out of my comfort zone.
I’ve always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men… Oh yes, that sounds lovely.
I still got bars, I just use ’em differently. I’d say I’m a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I’ve been sharpening my sword.
Everything in life is a double-edged sword.
I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I’d never ridden… with sword in my hand.
I ought to have Mike’s Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you’re a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we’ll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.
It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
I have a strong point of view, and that’s a double-edged sword. It can be a phenomenal characteristic in terms of getting things done, but it can also mean I will be relentless in my pushing for my point of view.
We filmed ‘Labyrinth’ in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It’s very different from ‘Downton’ because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair – it’s the other extreme of the look!
I’d really love to check out medieval times. I’m obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it’s a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev’s breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It’s something you need to do, but it’s hard to cut the apron strings.
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment – or a few – where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: ‘Vote for me ’cause I’m one of you. It’s the other guy who’s out of touch.’
Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it’s recorded and everyone has access to it… so let’s stop judging people.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities – for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.
Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.
The Bible is referred to in scripture as the sword of the spirit.
I have good spacial awareness, and I’m pretty comfortable with a sword.
A journalist who doesn’t bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn’t carry a sword.
One shouldn’t get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
