Quotes of: Shears Keyword

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin

Colonel Nicholson: [recognizes Shears] You? Major Shears: [lunges at Nicholson] You!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Maj. Warden: [to Col. Green] Sir, it's most annoying. They say, in view of the time element, they don't think a few practice jumps would be worthwhile. Major Shears: No? Maj. Warden: No, they say if you make one jump, you've only got 50% chance of in...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

Commander Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization. Commander Shears: That's just my point; here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nich...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Major Shears: You'll go on without me. That's an order. You're in command now, Shears. Major Shears: You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills - they go ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Tiberius

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Robert Plant

Major Hughes: Jennings has a plan, sir. He seems to think... Colonel Nicholson: Yes, I'm sure Jennings has a plan. But escape? Where, into this jungle? That fellow Saito was right: no need for barbed wire or fence, one chance in a hundred of survival...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Robert Herrick

Calvera: If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.

The Magnificent Seven

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Dean Koontz

Commander Shears: I can think of a lot of things to call Saito, but "reasonable"... that's a new one.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Maj. Warden: [lowering binoculars] Kill him... Kill him! Major Shears: [screaming] KILL HIM! KILL HIM!

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)

Another Man's Wife and Other Stories

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

Commander Shears: I'm getting worse, you know. Sometimes I think I'm Admiral Halsey.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

Jon Tester

Lester Burnham: [narrating] That's my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That's not an accident.

American Beauty