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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman -- Laura Nyro
Carved deep into my veins but didn't bleedOverdosed on sleeping pills but didn't sleepWhen your heart is heavy, it gets increasingly harder to breatheClearly there's a GodBut why has he forsaken me~? -- Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists? -- Ben Aaronovitch
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. -- Tori Amos
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. -- Michelangelo
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. -- Louise Bogan
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. -- Michelangelo
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. -- Immanuel Kant
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed. -- Jaclyn Smith
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. -- Paul Theroux
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love. -- Eddie Trunk
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. -- Jay Inslee
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' -- David Viscott
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars. -- Lou Doillon
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. -- Rudolf Otto
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. -- George Sutherland
I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart. -- Vir Das
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness. -- Mark Shand
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. -- Placido Domingo
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. -- Lindsay Fox
Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am. -- Nneka
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. -- Diane Ackerman
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. -- Primo Levi
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.' -- Will Self
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. -- James Keller
'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life. -- Tracy Hickman
Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features. -- Bob Dylan
The features of character are carved out of adversity. -- Rick Barnett
And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast! -- Dr. Seuss
Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love. -- James Taylor
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship. -- Laurence J. Peter
Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. -- A.D. Sams
Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone -- Arab Proverb
You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. -- Mary Oliver
Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. -- Khalil Gibran
We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. -- Alice Cooper
You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit. -- Jack McKeon
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David. -- Michelangelo
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. -- Bob Dylan
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. -- Scott McCloud
I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. -- Guy Davenport
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. -- James P. Hogan
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. -- Edwidge Danticat
Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls. -- Jun Maeda
The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption. -- Kelseyleigh Reber
No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone -- Carl Henegan
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. -- Nancy Gibbs
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. -- Robin Hobb
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. -- Cecelia Ahern
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people. -- Jon Stewart
This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. -- Lauren Oliver
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb. -- Jim Carroll
I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone. -- Conchitina Cruz
The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone. -- Hilary McKay
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. -- Mimi Sheraton
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. -- John Shimkus
Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity -- Victoria Hanley
At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present. -- Haruki Murakami
A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone. -- R. C. Sproul
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. -- Alan Jackson
A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline. -- Mathias Dopfner
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. -- N. T. Wright
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms. -- John Wesley Powell
Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch. -- Tahereh Mafi
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond. -- J.G. Farrell
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. -- Horace Mann
But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been. -- Karen White
There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China. -- Allen Crawford
Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away. -- Cyril of Jerusalem
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. -- Arthur Golden
To express our love, we carved a heart into the trunk of a tree, which I later cut down and turned into a cabinet to more efficiently hold all our love. -- Jarod Kintz
Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble. -- Peter Norvig
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually. -- Julian Jaynes
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view. -- Stephen Fry
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away. -- Lauren Oliver
He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out. -- V. E. Schwab
When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around. -- Robert Redford
Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills... -- Frank Chin
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time." -- George Sutherland
One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. -- Lauren Oliver
Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo. -- Hilda Doolittle
Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government. -- Edward Bennett Williams

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