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  • Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. -- Michelangelo
  • I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. -- Herbie Hancock
  • Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy. -- Aristide Maillol
  • Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. -- Henri Matisse
  • I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. -- Martin Puryear
  • A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. -- Kin Hubbard
  • Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. -- Randolph Bourne
  • Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. -- Adrienne Clarkson
  • Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. -- Graeme Le Saux
  • Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well. -- Adam Lambert
  • Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
  • Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? -- Robin Hobb
  • I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. -- Willard Wigan
  • The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. -- Horace
  • I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. -- Amy Tan
  • To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. -- Craig Claiborne
  • We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. -- Anais Nin
  • No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! -- John Muir
  • An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story. -- Mac Anderson
  • Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. -- Julia Child
  • there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others. -- Mark Nepo
  • What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. -- Tom Brokaw
  • The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible. -- Andrew Weil
  • The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. -- Charles Buxton
  • I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up. -- Neil Patrick Harris
  • Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? -- Ron Fournier
  • 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
  • I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams. -- John Hodgman
  • I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary. -- Ty Burrell
  • I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins. -- Jack Whitehall
  • There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that. -- Prince William
  • I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter' is about butter carving in Iowa. -- Ashley Greene
  • I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. -- Alanis Morissette
  • As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things. -- Robin Wasserman
  • Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness. -- Sandra Bullock
  • Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife. -- Dana Gould
  • Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
  • I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself. -- Heather Brooke
  • [On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
  • We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts. -- Masiela Lusha
  • What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding? -- Anton Chekhov
  • That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful. -- Lewis Schiff
  • This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast. -- Mark Twain
  • The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul. -- Anna White
  • I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it. -- Russell Tovey
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