Cabinetmaker Quotes

#1. To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Gore Vidal

#2. In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Annie Proulx

#3. My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

Christian Louboutin

#4. My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

Richard Hammond

#5. Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

Jack Levine

#6. Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

#7. We have to try to beat Everyone.

Alex Ferguson

#8. Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.

Nick Hornby

#9. Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

Leonard Michaels

#10. Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

David Cross

#11. I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

Roxane Gay

#12. Before the gods that made the gods had seen their sunrise pass, the white horse of the white horse vale was cut out of the grass

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Power does not always shout its presence, my Lady, and each of the two hundred men armed behind you on this road represent a thousand more ready to die at your command. Every word you speak has the weight of those men.

Jean Gill

#14. I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.

L'Wren Scott

#15. The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

#16. It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.

Caroline Kepnes

#17. I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

Robbie Williams