Quotes of Carve - somelinesforyou

“ The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrows. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Moonlight is sculpture. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be doing the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the facade-piercing interview. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can absorb. ”

- Jan Coleman

“ Carve every word before you let it fall. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ”

- Constantin Brancusi

“ It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. ”

- Michelangelo

“ The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. ”

- Unknown

“ From the feet, Hercules. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Carve your names on hearts and not on marble. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ”

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

“ From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks. ”

- Unknown

“ Carve you name on hearts and not marble. ”

- Charles H. Spurgeon

“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. ”

- Buddha

“ An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. ”

- Lawrence Barrett

“ Deathlessness should be arrived at in a… haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. ”

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

“ Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ”

- Julian S. Huxley

“ Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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