Quotes About Chisels

#1. A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Peter Weir

#3. It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels

Daniel C. Dennett

#7. Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.

Scott Nicholson

#8. My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#9. Sunlight Chisels out every angle, swale, and creature on the surface, and ties you right to everything by your eyesight. The sky usually shines so blue it will make your eyes hurt. The ground glows a fine gold and the sky cuts right into the horizon like a blue knife into a warm loaf of bread.

Rex Fuller

#10. [God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision ... God has not yet finished with us.

Billy Graham

#11. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#12. A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion - in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. Inside-outness of

Nicholson Baker

#14. Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

Ben E. King

#15. Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.

Rod Stewart

#16. I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

David Shuster

#17. The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

#18. What does God need with a starship?

William Shatner

#19. I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

Sandra Bullock

#20. Christ is made the sure foundation

Henry Purcell

#21. Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

Peter Thiel

#22. The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

Pope Pius IX

#23. My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

#24. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Barbara Amiel