"The chisel is the pen of the sculptor." — Pope Pius IX

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• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
• But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a… — Rudyard Kipling
• No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker… — 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… — Peter Kreeft
• Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been… — 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… — Marc Maron
• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be… — John Ruskin
• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant
• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be… — Emil Kraepelin
• The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just… — Michelangelo

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