Craftsperson Quotes

#1. I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Anne Stevenson

#2. The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Douglas Rushkoff

#3. I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

David Henry Hwang

#4. It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

Nate Berkus

#5. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.

Matana Roberts

#6. [I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.

Lotte Lenya

#7. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

John Wesley

#8. That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Ray Harryhausen

#9. Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

Janet Fitch

#10. Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#11. As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Isabel Paterson

#12. I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

Emmanuel Lewis

#13. Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any.

Larry McMurtry

#14. Speaking of scents, if Mr. Cologne-laced Letters really wants to stalk me, he'd be wise to follow me here, maybe offer to buy me a new release. That would get him a lot more action than his current bi-polar approach.

Angela Graham

#15. The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Graham Greene

#16. As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

Dallas Willard

#17. A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

George Herbert

#18. That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.

Junot Diaz

#19. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

#20. I've learned that when we allow Him to have complete control of our lives, then anything can happen.

JoAnn Durgin