Chisel Quotes by Samuel Butler

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• 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
• But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever… — Rudyard Kipling
• 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
• 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
• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin
• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They… — John Ruskin
• The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX
• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler

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