Carpenter Quotes

• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Epic, Study

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• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Soul, Shapes

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• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  Sam Rayburn

  Barns, Jackasses, Carpentry

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• By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Jesus Christ, Made, Mankind

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• It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

  Rajneesh

  What Matters, Shoes, Creating

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• I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Dad, Racing, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

  Alex Winter

  Certain, Remakes, Originals

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• Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, World, Matter

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• I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Thinking, Together, Might

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• Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Tools, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  Oliver Reed

  Thinking, Bangs, Nails

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• I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

  Jack Vance

  Watches

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• The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Chips, Ability, Carpentry

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Nice, People, Trying

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• I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Passion, Academia, Sitting

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

  James Berardinelli

  Halloween, Years, Scare

  "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

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• I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

  David Cronenberg

  Games, Guy, Directors

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com.

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• I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

  Pam Grier

  Serious, Kind, Film

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• At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Lying, Bullets

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• I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

  Guillermo del Toro

  Film

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• Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Nice, Would Be

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• John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Ideas, Vision

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• He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Girl, Baby

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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