Artificer Quotes

#1. Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Thomas Aquinas

#3. The hands of the artificer," Paul said, "had wu, and allowed that wu to flow into this piece. Possibly he himself knows only that this piece satisfies. It is complete, Robert. By contemplating it, we gain more wu ourselves.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared

Adrian Tchaikovsky

#6. Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

James Joyce

#8. Their necks also beautifully demonstrate the jury-rigged nature of evolution while simultaneously refuting the notion that some divine Artificer intelligently designed organic life

Brian Switek

#9. Shall any be his own artificer? or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one? for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Saint Augustine

#11. Dear Artificer, I've blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

Diane Duane

#12. His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her
grave-clothes. Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the
freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he
bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable,
imperishable.

James Joyce

#13. The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

Thomas Gray

#14. In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character ...

Adam Smith

#15. Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

Tertullian

#16. The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

#17. My dear artificer, I find I like it better from the front.

Delilah S. Dawson

#18. Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

Elena Ferrante

#19. 'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.

Richard Lamm

#20. I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

Raf Simons

#21. Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.

Carl Sandburg

#22. It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Norman Spinrad

#23. Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Peter S. Beagle

#24. A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it.

William Peter Grasso

#25. The choice they made in the moment of my need changed something in our relationship. I no longer depended on them so completely in the future. And when I took care to guard myself from hurt, it was as much from them as from our enemies.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#26. Mortified, where's the cape of invisibility when I needed one.

Cathrina Constantine

#27. If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.

David Lynch