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I dreamt that I could cut people in half with scissors, see into their souls and then walk with them to church or the grocery. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 11 days ago
We heard two gunshots. And after that, my teacher ran into the room, locked it, we barricaded and then we covered the windows and hid, we grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case James Crumbley got in and we had to attack them. – Prosecutor Marc Keast	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case the shooter got in and we had to attack them. – Senior Aiden Page	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The other point to remember is that when you're talking about these variants they haven't suddenly grown scissors that will cut their way through masks; they haven't grown spring heeled boots that will bounce them 50 yards between people, they're still coronaviruses and they're still stoppable by the standard procedures that we should all be doing. – John Moore	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
A story was made up about her that she was threatening to stab people in the room with scissors, it was extremely traumatizing for her and has led to a lot of problems psychologically and she is suffering from depression. Whenever she hears any footsteps outside of her dorm room, she's always terrified. – Randall Kallinen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on Dumb and Dumber but rounder and a little bit shorter. Thats exactly what it looked like. – Amy Martin	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They have shown their hand. That is not something they should have be doing at that stage, it's like playing rock-paper-scissors and the defense lawyers lost. – Takashi Takano	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Using a tool that looked like very large scissors, he extracted THE ENTIRE HEAD, UPPER TORSO, MORE LIMBS AND AN ANTENNAE. – Katie Holley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She writes beautifully, draws beautifully, and can cut [with scissors]. She seems to forge ahead of everything. – Connie Toscano	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
For me the major application, the best application, would be going smaller and levitating things inside your body and this could be drug capsules, this could be kidney stones, this could be clots or micro surgical instruments, a tiny scalpel, tiny scissors that you could control from the outside without any incision. – Asier Marzo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I started feeling pain in my stomach and abdomen and they could never find a reason, later I went to another hopsital. The doctor said that my body had an inflammation. Later they told me to have an X-ray. When the X-ray machine started up it became beeping and a doctor said to me: ‘You have scissors in your pocket.’. – Hanim Ozgul	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I can't ever remember having someone come in with such a serious heart wound and still surviving, The scissors had wedged in the wall of the heart, and we needed to operate immediately. The boy's heart was already showing signs of failing. – Viktor Kovalchuk	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I realized straightaway that it was a serious injury. you could see the scissors vibrating to the beating of his heart. – Liubov Mikhalchik	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I have some scissors . . . Lets Run – Tom	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. – Truman Capote	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head. – Hakim Jami	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I dreamt that I could cut people in half with scissors, see into their souls and then walk with them to church or the grocery.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
11 days ago

We heard two gunshots. And after that, my teacher ran into the room, locked it, we barricaded and then we covered the windows and hid, we grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case James Crumbley got in and we had to attack them.

– Prosecutor Marc Keast

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case the shooter got in and we had to attack them.

– Senior Aiden Page

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The other point to remember is that when you're talking about these variants they haven't suddenly grown scissors that will cut their way through masks; they haven't grown spring heeled boots that will bounce them 50 yards between people, they're still coronaviruses and they're still stoppable by the standard procedures that we should all be doing.

– John Moore

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A story was made up about her that she was threatening to stab people in the room with scissors, it was extremely traumatizing for her and has led to a lot of problems psychologically and she is suffering from depression. Whenever she hears any footsteps outside of her dorm room, she's always terrified.

– Randall Kallinen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on Dumb and Dumber but rounder and a little bit shorter. Thats exactly what it looked like.

– Amy Martin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They have shown their hand. That is not something they should have be doing at that stage, it's like playing rock-paper-scissors and the defense lawyers lost.

– Takashi Takano

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Using a tool that looked like very large scissors, he extracted THE ENTIRE HEAD, UPPER TORSO, MORE LIMBS AND AN ANTENNAE.

– Katie Holley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She writes beautifully, draws beautifully, and can cut [with scissors]. She seems to forge ahead of everything.

– Connie Toscano

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

For me the major application, the best application, would be going smaller and levitating things inside your body and this could be drug capsules, this could be kidney stones, this could be clots or micro surgical instruments, a tiny scalpel, tiny scissors that you could control from the outside without any incision.

– Asier Marzo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I started feeling pain in my stomach and abdomen and they could never find a reason, later I went to another hopsital. The doctor said that my body had an inflammation. Later they told me to have an X-ray. When the X-ray machine started up it became beeping and a doctor said to me: ‘You have scissors in your pocket.’.

– Hanim Ozgul

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I can't ever remember having someone come in with such a serious heart wound and still surviving, The scissors had wedged in the wall of the heart, and we needed to operate immediately. The boy's heart was already showing signs of failing.

– Viktor Kovalchuk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I realized straightaway that it was a serious injury. you could see the scissors vibrating to the beating of his heart.

– Liubov Mikhalchik

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I have some scissors . . . Lets Run

– Tom

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

– Truman Capote

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head.

– Hakim Jami

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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