Engraver's Quotes

#1. You hit your head. Kind of got in the way of a wing. I know it's a lot to deal with,

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. Trade small because thats when you are as bad as you are ever going to be. Learn from your mistakes.

Richard Dennis

#3. Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

Frederic Chopin

#4. He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

William Blake

#5. What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

#6. Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

Jakob Bohme

#7. When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station.

Peter Jackson

#8. Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

Kristin Cashore

#9. Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

Nenia Campbell

#10. Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Margaret Atwood