You can't find the soul with a scalpel. Votes: 4
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. Votes: 4
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. Votes: 4
Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club. Votes: 4
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, Votes: 4
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. Votes: 4
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser Votes: 4
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. Votes: 4
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. Votes: 4
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. Votes: 4
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. Votes: 4
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. Votes: 4
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. Votes: 4
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. Votes: 4
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. Votes: 4
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet. Votes: 4
Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate. Votes: 4
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth. Votes: 4
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. Votes: 4
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. Votes: 4
I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes. Votes: 4
Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.