Chisel Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

• But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was… — Cormac McCarthy
• Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it.… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that… — Alain de Botton
• It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel,… — Robert M. Pirsig
• Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel. — Peter McWilliams
• You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder,… — Shannon Hale
• There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once,… — John Green
• A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. — Laurel Lea
• In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually. — Victor Hugo
• Everybody knows that the best things come last. I've a lever for a bandit. And a chisel for a rat. I've a mallet for a… — Iris Lopez
• Chisel my heart out of stone, I give in every time. — Silverstein
• Ma, ma, look what I did, ma. Look what I did to my hands, I broke 'em. You gave me the stone, gave me the… — Sage Francis
• A small chisel can break a rock, like a true love can melt a stony heart! — My Brain Thought

Who Wrote These Chisel Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 53 Chisel Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Chisel Quotes by John Ruskin
• 3 Chisel Quotes by Michelangelo
• 2 Chisel Quotes by J I Packer
• 2 Chisel Quotes by Robert Breault
• 2 Chisel Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 1 Chisel Quote by Orison Swett Marden
• 1 Chisel Quote by Robert M. Pirsig
• 1 Chisel Quote by Marc Maron
• 1 Chisel Quote by Peter McWilliams
• 1 Chisel Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• 1 Chisel Quote by Shannon Hale
• 1 Chisel Quote by John Green
• 1 Chisel Quote by William C. Bryant
• 1 Chisel Quote by Laurel Lea
• 1 Chisel Quote by Emil Kraepelin
• 1 Chisel Quote by Iris Lopez
• 1 Chisel Quote by Silverstein
• 1 Chisel Quote by Max Lucado
• 1 Chisel Quote by Sage Francis
• 1 Chisel Quote by Howard Whitley Eves
• 1 Chisel Quote by My Brain Thought
• 1 Chisel Quote by James G. Watt
• 1 Chisel Quote by Robert Henri
• 1 Chisel Quote by William Butler Yeats
• 1 Chisel Quote by Friedrich Schiller