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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
— James Broughton
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
— Jose Rizal
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
— Sid Grossman
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
— Ben Vereen
When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.
— Connilyn Cossette
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
— Michel De Montaigne
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lion has his claws already sharpened and is ready to go.
— Aleksandr Voinov
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Words could cut just as deep as sharpened claws, and while the skin could heal, the wounds words left behind never faded as quickly.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.
— Megan Shepherd
I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it.
— Bernard Cornwell
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
— Lao-Tzu
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats
Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth.
— Steve Maraboli
lungful of rim block. Her senses sharpened and the urge to vomit left her at last. Hawkins heaved herself up onto her knees and sat back on
— Alastair Gunn
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
— Henri Matisse
Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts,Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart — Charles Baudelaire
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
— Kale Burton
So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this - the poets declare!2 Science
— Huston Smith
Their points sharpened like giant pencils, completely
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
— Charles Dickens
And I had one of the guards tend to this." Mona lifts my chakram. "It's sharpened." Mona is my favorite.
— Sara Raasch
Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.
— Sam Byers
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'.
— David Mitchell
Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.
— Aisha Mirza
There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
— Jon Krakauer
What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
Was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He
— Pierce Brown
A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
— Louis L'Amour
Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.
— Pierce Brown
Yes, when you are sharpened with the true information, you will be motivated to make impacts.
— Israelmore Ayivor
A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds.
— Matshona Dhliwayo