Quotes About Carpentry

#1. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Pat Conroy

#2. Basic Carpentry in the afternoon, and Sadomasochism 101 in the evening.

Tymber Dalton

#3. I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

Michael Cudlitz

#4. I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

David Lynch

#5. Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Maurice Allais

#7. I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.

Chad Urmston

#8. The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

John Ratzenberger

#9. The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew ... carpentry.

Shea Hembrey

#10. And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#11. If there's an honest man in this world, I haven't seen his carpentry.

Rodney Gomez

#12. Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

Karl Pilkington

#13. Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

William Sargant

#14. Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Anatole France

#15. I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Adrian Edmondson

#16. I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#18. Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

James Anderson

#19. You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool.

Kenneth L. Higbee

#20. My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

Anne Hathaway

#21. I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

Anne Rice

#22. I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Patrick Duffy

#23. Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

William Golding

#24. I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

Scott Cohen

#25. My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

John Henry Carver

#26. I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry

Stanley Elkin

#27. I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

Abbas Kiarostami

#28. I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Harrison Ford

#29. The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

David Benioff

#30. My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

John Lautner