Chipping Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

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
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
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
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy
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
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
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
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin
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
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
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
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
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable… — Laozi
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
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
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. — Ree Drummond
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
How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldnâ€™t even love a tree, a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
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
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: