Top 25 Scissors Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Scissors Quotes from famous people such as Christopher Guest, Nancy Gibbs, Marie Helvin, Jane Birkin, Emily Weiss, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle’s hair off to sabotage the dog.
Christopher Guest
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next – the sharp scissors, the car keys – this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs
I’ve slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.
Marie Helvin
I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man’s jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.
Jane Birkin
When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.
Emily Weiss
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
Harry Crosby
My character in ‘Running With Scissors’ is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
Annette Bening
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
Jeff Foxworthy
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.
Alex Berenson
We played one show in Bangalore in a field where they’d never had a rock show before and when we got there, they were actually cutting the grass with scissors.
Tony Kanal
Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won’t be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y’know.
Kerry King
I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
Sally Phillips
I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
Giambattista Valli
Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
Azzedine Alaia
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Umberto Eco
One of the most practical utensils I can’t live without is my ‘Joyce Chen’ Scissors. They cut with precision.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I’ve never looked back.
Richard O’Brien
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
Diane Ackerman
When you make and drape clothing, the scissors are your tool. What can I say about them? They’re my babies. And you have to take care of them correctly. You have to have them sharpened, and you can’t use them for any other material.
Zac Posen
There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like ‘Running with Scissors.’
Joseph Fiennes
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
Katee Sackhoff
The first time my mom was hospitalized, she was forcibly sedated before I was admitted to see her. When I arrived, someone handed me a plastic bag containing her belongings: the ruined clothes that had been cut off her body with scissors.
Michelle Wu
I pretty much learned not to fight with it a long time ago and let it do what it likes to do. Otherwise, my shaving techniques are pretty mundane. I tend to do it in the shower because it makes the bristles soft and keeps the razor from building up the hairs inside it, and the mustache is dealt with with scissors.
Jamie Hyneman
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
Allan Dwan