Rotten wood cannot be carved.

“Never try to knock on rotten wood.”

— Sylvia Plath

“The law wasn’t a piece of wood to be carved by cutting away pieces. It was a house that you built piece by piece,…

— Victor Methos

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…

— Lou Doillon

“  “Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got…

— Debbie Harry

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints…

— Diane Ackerman

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand

“The soul’s hand has an eye. *Carved on a rain-worn stone.* Welling-in-the-Mountains.”

— Betsy James

“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.”

— Vietnamese

“You’re not like a relative of hers or something?” I cocked my head. “No. Though she does carry my name.” He frowned. I could…

— Karina Halle

“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces.” The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our…

— Orison Swett Marden

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship,…

— Nneka

I carved your name into this bullet so that everyone would know that you were the last thing going through my head.

— Anonymous

“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow…

— Roshani Chokshi

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo