Carpenter Quotes · Page 2

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

— Joe Keery

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

— Jack Vance

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

— Bob Menendez

My dad's an amazing carpenter and he does painting and decorating.

— Phoebe Fox

In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Guiterman

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

— Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

— Sam Rayburn

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

— Bob Dylan

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of…

— Betty Buckley

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part.…

— Adam Driver

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a…

— Ronan Farrow

“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." (Good comment for reflecting on Nazism)”

— Sam Rayburn

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first…

— Miyamoto Musashi

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none -…

— Lewis Carroll

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic…

— Bobby Seale

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we…

— Quincy Jones

“I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use…

— Walter Isaacson

The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films,…

— Edgar Wright

The only other job that I've ever had that provided that time in the morning, where you're going to work and you…

— Mark Harmon

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…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came…

— Milton Resnick

What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real.…

— Barbara Cameron

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because…

— Zhuangzi

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?…

— Masa Takayama

“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries…

— Roman Payne

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think none of the humor in the first Evil Dead was intentional. We weren't that sophisticated. We got more sophisticated with…

— Bruce Campbell

A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

— Guillermo del Toro

I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.

— D. J. Cotrona

“Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.”

— Nicole Castro

Sure the jews killed jesus, but the guy was an awful carpenter

— Zach Braff

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

— Jordan Peterson

John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

— Jason Blum

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

— Alex Winter

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

— Sebastian Vettel