Carpentry Quotes

• I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

  Harrison Ford

  Years, Very Good, Enjoyed

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• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Literature, Woods

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• My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

  John Henry Carver

  Father, House, Handy

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• I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

  Ade Edmondson

  Waiting, Failing, Ready

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• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Literature

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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

  Arthur Guiterman

  Chips, Ability, Carpenter

  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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• Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Writing, Bird

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• Speak, what trade art thou?
  Why, sir, a carpenter.
  Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
  What does thou with thy best apparel on?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Aprons, Doe

  Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.3, Orient Blackswan

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• The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cute, Crush, Girl

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

  Anne Hathaway

  Passion, Years, Goal

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Thinking, Mma

  "Renaissance Man". Interview with Steph Daniels, www.sbnation.com. May 15, 2014.

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• Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

  Anatole France

  Kind, Sentences

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

  Sam Rayburn

  Barns, Carpenter, Jackasses

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• I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Father, Age, Fields

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

  John Ratzenberger

  Running, People, Car

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Giving, Contentment, Doe

  "Landscapes of the mind" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

  Karl Pilkington

  Ladders, Evolution, Giraffe

  "Xfm" Radio, June 11, 2005.

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Jobs, Steel, Welding

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• ...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

  William Sargant

  Jesus, Religion, Use

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• At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Writing, Talking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Wall, Odd

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• I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Sports, Dream, Home

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

  Scott Cohen

  Sports, Reading, Rocks

  Interview with Kale Slade, www.movievine.com. December 19, 2011.

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