Hand Carved Quotes

#1. Josh isn't in love with me and I'm not in love with him."
"Sell it to someone who's buying, Sunshine. Have you seen the way he looks at you?" I've seen the way he looks at me but I don't know what it means. "Like you're a seventeenth-century, hand-carved table in mint condition.

Katja Millay

#2. Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

Katherine McIntyre

#3. You are being suffocated by tradition ... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art
it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey.

Richard Preston

#5. More than the problem, it's your reaction to the problem that creates chaos in your lives. Do not react in life. Always respond.

Pravin Agarwal

#6. If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

Terry Crisp

#7. People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. This was a doctor. Sworn to heal, not to judge. But judge she did, in the twist of her lips and the chill of her tone.

Kelley Armstrong

#9. My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.

Mark Frauenfelder

#10. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

George Sutherland

#11. That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.

Cassandra Clare

#12. He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#13. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.

Galway Kinnell

#14. At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

Haruki Murakami

#15. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze.

Joseph Conrad

#16. My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

#17. The staircase was a mass of rotting wood, carved with such cruel-looking mermaids that Mr. Jelliby was afraid to put his hand on the banister.

Stefan Bachmann

#18. You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

Amy Harmon

#19. Turn back time to half-past innocence. But that clock's lying on its side, hour hand spinning wildly, in a dirty Dublin alley near a gold makeup pouch half concealed by trash, and an address carved in stone by a dying woman. Broken.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. [He] looked as thought he had been carved out of soft ebony by a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

Robert Galbraith

#21. She was tall and built like the figurehead of a ship carved by a generous hand.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

Teresa Flavin

#23. No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

William Shakespeare

#24. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

Amy Sedaris