Chipping Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion,…
— Eric Cantor
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Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the…
— Cher
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St.…
— Thomas Boswell
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All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
— Eddie Murphy
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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living…
— Will Self
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Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
— Richard Bangs
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The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
— Stanley Elkin
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Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of…
— Amy Alcott
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Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had…
— Ann Romney
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Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know…
— Nora Roberts
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I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it…
— Harriet Doerr
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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable…
— Laozi
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Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have…
— Piers Anthony
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A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the…
— Richard Hamming
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My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
— Ree Drummond
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People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time,…
— Kim Harrison
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How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of…
— Elbert Hubbard
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
— Barbara Kingsolver
Who Wrote These Chipping Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Chipping Quotes, led by these top contributors: