Able Quote by Jonathan Swift

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon…

— Jonathan Swift

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had…

— Jonathan Swift

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

— Jenova Chen

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes…

— Raymond Chandler

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit,…

— Anais Nin

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,…

— Henry Moore

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building…

— Craig Thompson

“Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard…

— Ken Follett

“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you, I think.…

— Pierce Brown

Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of…

— Aristide Maillol