(10 quotes found)
“It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand”
Michelangelo
“You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.”
John Ruskin
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.”
Victor Hugo
“What good I have comes from the pure air of your native Arezzo, and also because I sucked in chisels and hammers with my nurse's milk.”
“It basically took a hammer and a chisel to get it apart.”
Robert McLean
“He sits there with a lot of lino and a very sharp little chisel and cuts out those incredibly detailed little lines and gouge marks. That's really taking it back to the processes of [German Renaissance artist] Albrecht Durer, a simple technique that makes very complex images.”
Roger Butler
“I asked them to chisel it down and we did. Right now we need to get back home and correct and get ready for our game with Florida in Gainesville Wednesday.”
Dave Odom
“You get out the hammer and chisel. If the bullets are behind steel, you've got to get them out.”
Doug Murphy
“And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face.”
Walter Scott
“A hot deer and the cold pavement -- they freeze instantly to the surface, ... You can't even chisel them off -- I've tried that. There's really nothing you can do.”
Charles Brannon
