An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
The scalpel won't make you happy.
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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.