Sharpest Quotations

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

It is not clear exactly why confidence is falling but it may have been dented by concerns over the cooling housing market. The contrast between the buoyancy of current economic conditions and caution over the future is now the sharpest since 9/11.

Playing a team three times is hard. It wasn't our sharpest game of the year. We did enough to get over the hump. Give the kids credit, they battled.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

We are on one of the sharpest decelerations that our industry has experienced, and it requires that we move fast to make hard, but prudent business decisions, ... The most difficult decisions are layoffs, because they affect our people.

We're looking at a 12 percent decline in earnings this year for the S&P 500, and that's the sharpest decline we've had since the last recession. The confidence level that one has in looking at those earnings is very low.

We have to break sharp, ... We have to break cleanly. We can't stumble. We can't do anything. We have to have the sharpest break this horse has ever done. ... We're out there in no-man's land, and if you do make a mistake you're in deep trouble.

With our industry being watched so carefully by governmental agencies, with the FTC ready to pounce on every claim we make, what we CAN say in our ads is forever narrowing and the sharpest tool left for us is HOW we say it.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

So people didn't want to destroy themselves, and they didn't; and so only a very few brave hearts, not always the brightest or the sharpest knives in the drawer, stepped forward and did the best they could to bring about change and to make known how bad the situation was - the social situation, the legal situation, the employment situation, and so on - for homosexuals.

You wouldn't expect her to be at her sharpest after that. But I suppose, on the other hand, she has hardly missed a dogfight for months and the other horse is more on the way up.

It wasn't our sharpest night. The beginning of the first half, I thought we played pretty well, but we didn't keep it up the entire game which is something we are going to need to do.

It wasn't our sharpest day on offense. You hate to lose to any opponent because every game is so important and it's a chance to prove to your teammates and yourself how great this program can be.

It wasn't the sharpest match he's had, but he's had a pretty grueling week.

not the sharpest crayon in the box. ... And that's giving her too much credit.

It was probably one of the sharpest pains I've had.

Instead of being a new bull market starting, this is just an oversold bounce from the downtrend, ... The sharpest rallies occur in bear markets and right now, everybody is like a deer caught in the headlights.

I figured that was the best way to approach it. Josh wasn't his sharpest tonight, but he got the job done.

The emerging markets and the European markets are a bit behind the U.S. in the phase of correction at the moment. From this point on, it's my view that emerging markets will have the sharpest correction from current levels. European markets the next sharpest correction, and Japan will be little affected by interest-rate trends in the United States.

The dynamics are such that this is going to happen. The sharpest authors will do the sharpest deals.

It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou