Handwork Quotes

#1. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#2. With consistent determination, commitment , persistent, handwork, and faith in God we can make our dreams come true.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

Martin Filler

#4. Once, I believed that space could
have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God's
handwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#6. Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

Edward Weston

#7. As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race.

Walter Scott

#8. I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.

Markus Zusak

#10. That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.

Charles Todd

#11. Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

Joan Rivers

#12. When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

Hillary Clinton

#13. It is not my intention to make anything comprehensible. I am of the opinion that there are sufficient paintings which one understands after a shorter or longer delay, and that therefore some incomprehensible painting would now be welcome. I am at pains to deliver such, as far as possible.

Rene Magritte