Shaving Quotes

True atonement isn’t the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

I think there’s really healthy ways to segue into different roles and different genres. I’m not completely opposed to shaving my head and doing something crazy.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there’s someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, ‘I’m gonna go shave, too.’

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Winning is like shaving – you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

I thoroughly believe that shaving is the best way of hair removal, as it’s the most convenient and hassle free of all the methods.

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don’t like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

It’s kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of – shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It’s kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I got the idea for my novel ‘Lord of Light’ when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, ‘I wish I could change bodies.’

I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face – well, I don’t know if you’d call that blessed – I don’t even remember when I started shaving.

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

I couldn’t wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

I’m obsessed with the Clarisonic brush. It actually makes you feel like you’ve had a facial. It helps prevent ingrown hairs after shaving, too.

Love is a competition. If you don’t think so, then you’re crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?

I like to put shaving cream in the door handle of people’s cars and that kind of thing.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It’s when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

I never dressed like a teddy boy, and I don’t like shaving but you’ve got to do it.

Women simply need to know the right technique of shaving to get the best results.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it’s pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I’d been soldiering as long as I’d been shaving. Suddenly I’d been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

I really can’t be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that’s nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people – things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.