Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
“He was to be the sun that would ripen the crowd for carving skin instead of wooden ornaments.” — Nick Oliveri Copy Share Image
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“You know, a carving, especially if it’s polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they’re… — Jacques Yonnet Copy Share Image
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image