(78 quotes found)
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.”
W. GIFFORD-JONES
“You watch this guy carve up defenses, and you know he's going to be a special player at the next level. He's just so explosive.”
Dunta Robinson
“One gentleman was floating by and snagged the light fixture out front and tied himself off to it and carved his initials in the wall, because he knew the owners and was hoping they would recognize him if they found him after the storm,”
Tom Daly
“We send professionals to the original sites to source jade articles, all of which are designed and carved by skilled local craftsmen.”
Ye Ling
“They just left a big hole out there. Somebody went out there with a cement saw and carved it out of the black terrazzo.”
Johnny Grant
“They're all scrolled and carved.”
Joseph Shapiro
“One gentleman was floating by and snagged the light fixture out front and tied himself off to it and carved his initials in the wall, because he knew the owners and was hoping they would recognize him if they found him after the storm.”
“He used to do hand carved feet and he actually had a display rack that he would show me. These are the four feet that he could carve for you out of a wooden block and he could carve it right down to the toenails. That was fantastic to see. That was his trade-secret., You wanted a foot - he wasn't going to show how to make it. But if you came to him, he'd make you one and that's where everyone has his little secrets.”
Ken Heide
“(Legal & General ) is a core holding in this sector. Unlike Prudential, it has carved out a position for itself in the market as a broadly diversified player.”
Tim Young
