My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just…

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel…

— William Shakespeare

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

— Arthur Guiterman

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I…

— Michael Cudlitz

Acting is so... You get too involved in emotions and the idea of self. Carpentry is just very simple and skill-based.

— Harris Dickinson

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

— Harrison Ford

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

— Anatole France

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine…

— William Golding

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

— Richard N. Haass

“You need skills to be good at homesteading. You need farming, carpentry, and above all, you need to be able to impersonate Elvis. When…

— Jarod Kintz

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought…

— Steve Rasnic Tem

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his…

— L.M. Montgomery

At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create…

— Stephen King

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

— David Lynch

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction,…

— Luis J. Rodriguez