Top 26 Quotes About Engraving
#1. Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
John Ruskin
#2. While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
Ansel Adams
#3. If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio.
Bill Bryson
#4. Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be
I weep to say it
Elizabeth I.
Bill Bryson
#5. Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.
Hasan Of Basra
#7. A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.
Christopher Paolini
#8. It's so beautiful. It has our initials," she said, running her fingertip over the engraving.
"You know me," I half joked. "Any way I can get my name on you."
She looked up. I felt her hazel eyes on my face. "I love you."
- Rimmel & Romeo
Cambria Hebert
#9. There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.
Sarah Vowell
#10. You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
Earl Scruggs
#11. The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
Vera Wang
#12. A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
Anthony Burgess
#13. He ran his hand down the surface and felt some imperfections in the steel near the center. He flipped it over to see that the alien had put an engraving into one of the surfaces. "Excali-bar," Jonathan said out loud. He smiled, rolling his eyes at the alien's sense of humor.
T. Ellery Hodges
#14. Lucifer was engraving Nate's name on a cage right now.
Kelly Moran
#15. I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther
#16. If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.
Fernando Pessoa
#17. I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.
Marianne Curley
#18. Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.
Ravi Zacharias
#19. What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.
Stacy Schiff
#20. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.
Cecelia Ahern
#21. Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Harriet Lerner
#22. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Edgar Allan Poe
#23. I'm going to be late. I get home exactly sixteen minutes before my shift starts, which only gives me six minutes to get it together and get out the door. By get it together I mean calm the freak down, because I'm jittery and spastic and acting, as Mo would say, like a squirrel on crack.
Jessica Martinez
#24. Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
Dave Pelzer
#25. When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.
Greg Saunier
#26. That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around that bend and then flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.
Cormac McCarthy
