I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

- David Spade

Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

- Hannibal Buress

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

- H. L. Mencken

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

- Grant Bowler

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

- George W. Bush

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

- George McGovern

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

- F. E. Smith

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

- Francine Prose

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

- Eleanor Catton

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Douglas William Jerrold

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

- Anthony Hopkins

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

- Donald Rumsfeld

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

- Courtney Barnett

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

- Billy Gibbons

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

- Bruno Mars

In nature there are few sharp lines.

- A. R. Ammons

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

- Andrae Crouch

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

- Alison Mosshart

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

- Antonia Fraser

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

- Alan Hansen