Unknown Craftsman Quotes

#1. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Jeff Davidson

#2. In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

John C. Reilly

#3. Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

William Hazlitt

#4. My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

Kem Nunn

#5. I was attracted to their guns, because the guns seemed honest. The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language - violence.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Then all the older members wash the initiates' feet.

Veronica Roth

#7. I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.

Ricky Whittle

#8. I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Dawn French

#9. As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art?

Kelli Russell Agodon

#10. Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown craftsmen - were so beautiful. In his view, they expressed unconscious beauty because they had been made in such numbers that the craftsman had been liberated from his ego.

Edmund De Waal

#11. I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#12. Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Warren Zevon

#13. It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Friedenberg

#14. Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi