Top 119 Carving Quotes & Sayings

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.

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

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

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 up from nothing.

I really enjoy sculpting, like wood carving, and do artwork.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

To analyze Trump is to discover only bottomless appetite and need, and to carve at him is like carving at an online troll: The only thing to discover is the void.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Carving out space for protected bike lanes is the most cost-effective way to increase our transit capacity and move more people on our streets.

In my teens, I had no idea about running as a sports event. For me, an orphan, it was not only about learning how to survive the brutal world, but also about carving an identity.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

In my 20s, I was carving a space for myself in the world of entertainment.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.

We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

Carving out our own role, distinct from America's, might not be easy. But we must ask ourselves: what alternative is there? Unthinking, uncritical loyalty to the U.S. under Donald Trump is a far less appealing idea.

Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.