Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel… — James G. Watt Copy Share Image
I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow… — Shiko Munakata Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel… — Ron Kauk Copy Share Image
Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul. — Rumi Copy Share Image
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“our fates are cut by chisels we hold in our own hands, that circumstances do not limit, that time and culture do… — BK Loren Copy Share Image
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape… — Anne Heche Copy Share Image