Top 214 Carpenter Quotes & Sayings

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Where I'm from, you go to college, become a carpenter or something, and stay in the district.

I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Any instructions?” Carpenter said. “Yeah,” Shane said. “Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don’t like. I’m getting tired of this shi*.” “Somebody needs a hug,” Carpenter said. “Humor,” Shane said. “Har.

I hope it's water under the bridge, but Richard Carpenter is a complicated individual, and he's also entitled to his own opinion on how his sister is depicted. The film has lived on and survived, and to me is ultimately is an affectionate celebration of Karen Carpenter. I hope that wins out in the end.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

Sure the jews killed jesus, but the guy was an awful carpenter

The house praises the carpenter.

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

I worked as a truck driver, carpenter's assistant, doing whatever it took to keep bread on the table for the family.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

My dad's an amazing carpenter and he does painting and decorating.

I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

To be a carpenter or a builder or a home inspector, you have to have that kind of visual brain where you can sort of imagine something taken apart.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

No-one has ever sung quite so beautifully as Karen Carpenter.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.