(78 quotes found)
“When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.”
Craig Claiborne
“A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle”
Korean Proverb
“I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.”
Walter Lippmann
“Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.”
Henri Matisse
“[(CNN) -- The cardinal rule of criminal detection was carved in stone more than a century ago.] It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence, ... It biases the judgment.”
Sherlock Holmes
“And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.”
William Dean Howells
“I'm just happy to be someplace where I'm wanted, where I can dig in and carve out a place for myself,”
Caron Butler
“Carve every word before you let it fall.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Then she gave something to the chief, and it was a pipe with a bison calf carved on one side to mean the earth that bears and feeds us, and with twelve eagle feathers hanging from the stem to mean the sky and the twelve moons, and these were tied with a grass that never breaks,”
Black Elk
“I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be [doing] the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the façade-piercing interview.”
Mike Wallace
