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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films. -- Pam Grier
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. -- Donald Pleasence
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game. -- David Cronenberg
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original. -- Alex Winter
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others -- Guillermo del Toro
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote -- Casper Van Dien
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars -- Rosanne Cash
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs. -- Betty Buckley
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept. -- Donald Pleasence
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. -- Jack Vance
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. -- Oliver Reed
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. -- Sam Rayburn
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together. -- Sebastian Vettel
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. -- David Amram
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. -- Dirk Benedict
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. -- Jack Vance
I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite. -- Rob Lowe
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. -- Guillermo del Toro
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. -- Arthur Guiterman
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together. -- Dave Van Ronk
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. -- Casper Van Dien
I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance. -- J. August Richards
If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one. -- Drew Goddard
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The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' -- Lewis Carroll
Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. -- Neil Marshall
I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man? -- Zach Braff
When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.' -- Adam Driver
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout. -- John Crowe Ransom
As you and I walk the pathway Jesus walked, let us listen for the sound of sandaled feet. Let us reach out for the Carpenter's hand. Then we shall come to know Him. -- Thomas S. Monson
I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack. -- John Crowe Ransom
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. -- Lewis Carroll
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall. -- Dario Argento
Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up. -- Drew Goddard
It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image. -- Jamie Buckingham
Any instructions?" Carpenter said. "Yeah," Shane said. "Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don't like. I'm getting tired of this shi*." "Somebody needs a hug," Carpenter said. "Humor," Shane said. "Har. -- Jennifer Crusie
If we are to have the very best Christmas ever, we must listen for the sound of sandaled feet. We must reach out for the Carpenter's hand. With every step we take in his footsteps, we abandon a doubt and gain a truth. -- Thomas S. Monson
There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. -- John Leguizamo
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984. -- Adam Green
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. -- William Faulkner
Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off. -- Nicole Castro
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. -- Sam Rayburn
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. -- Carlo Collodi
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The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings -- Lewis Carroll
My cabinet was made by hand. My applause is also made by hand, and I stood there clapping the whole time the carpenter was making my cabinet. -- Jarod Kintz
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary. -- Bobby Seale
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. -- Martin Filler
When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory. -- Timothy Simons
I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still. -- Misha Collins
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that. -- Bobby Seale
The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we refuse to carry out the functions we were created for, our father loses the glory He deserves! -- Israelmore Ayivor
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. -- Quincy Jones
I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right? -- Denis Leary
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
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. -- Steve Jobs
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. -- Tom Sizemore
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
The house praises the carpenter. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A carpenter is known by his chips. -- Jonathan Swift
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. -- Friedrich Schiller
Sure the jews killed jesus, but the guy was an awful carpenter -- Zach Braff
Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke. -- Robin Williams
Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter. -- Carrie Fisher
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul. -- Rumi
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. -- Annie Proulx
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. -- Woody Allen
An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest. -- Ming-Dao Deng
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. -- Agnes Varda
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God. -- Timothy Keller
My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing. -- Jim Evans
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. -- Bobby Seale
I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon -- Winston Churchill
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives. -- Gautama Buddha
A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there. -- Mark Hart
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on? -- William Shakespeare
When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater. -- Timothy Simons
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family. -- John Kander
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator. -- Luc de Clapiers
Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support. -- Ralphie May
Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole... -- Henri Matisse
Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours. -- Anne Sexton
My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. -- Masa Takayama
What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch. -- Anne Sexton
On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus? -- Dillon Burroughs
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. -- Mark Sheppard
The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life. -- Mike Bickle
I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter. -- Jacob Hashimoto
I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me. -- Julian Schnabel

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