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Chisel Quotes by John Ruskin
- You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as…
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry…
- The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of…
More Chisel Quotes
- 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
- 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
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
- But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever… — Rudyard Kipling
- 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
- 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
- That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your… — Marc Maron