Quotes About Carpenter

The word translated 'carpenter' in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 for how Joseph and Jesus made a living is the Greek word tekt?n. It means 'builder.' You see, when the writers of the King James Version were translating the Greek into the English, they assumed, 'Oh, these guys were carpenters. Just like us.

on a Corncrake call…] Fairy music is said to do this; to lead a man on in his confusion and drunkenness, to start, then stop, then begin again from another place, ever luring him on. This was not a beautiful music, it has to be said; hardly the art of fairies. Mind you, it could be a goblin carpenter, sawing away at his little workbench, if you'd had a few too many at the island disco and were of a fanciful mind.

What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule? asked Scicpio. And what for do you look so black at me? No matter, darky, said the carpenter. Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?

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

I knew that in religious homes, Jesus had something to do with Christmas, but wasn't sure how He was connected to it. Was He a special carpenter in Santa's village? One year I got a BB gun as a gift. I practiced shooting soda cans and empty furniture boxes, but that got boring. I decided I needed to try my skills on a moving target. I'm sorry to say, I shot the neighbor's cat in the leg. The vet bill came and my BB gun went.

Lucas came into view. Oh, wow. Wow. He wore carpenter shorts and work boots and a white T-shirt that made his skin seem darker. Blue-collar man and his big, strong . . . um. . .hammer. Wasn't there a porno about this? There should be. Someone should make one now. . .

On hearing himself called Polendina for the third time, Geppetto lost his head with rage and threw himself upon the carpenter. Then and there they gave each other a sound thrashing. After this fight, Mastro Antonio had two more scratches on his nose, and Geppetto had two buttons missing from his coat. Thus having settled their accounts, they shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.

Carpenter Greg Zanis

To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing wood for the master carpenter.Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands.

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

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

Sometime during eternity some guys show up and one of them who shows up real late is a kind of carpenter from some square-type place like Galilee and he starts wailing and claiming he is hep to who made heaven and earth and that the cat who really laid it on us is his Dad

I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think the biggest influence on me as a storyteller and as a filmmaker is actually Steven Spielberg. I love that even though Steven isn't known for being a horror director, he started out his career making scary movies.

God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.

Her gamblder was in hospital. There'd been heavy losses at the blackjack table, his wife had discovered what he'd been up to, developed a wholly unexpected strength ("inhuman strength," he called it) broken both of his arms, and then moved in with a carpenter who'd clearly been keeping her company while he'd been out working on their finances.

You know, it never occurred to me until afterwards that everybody in these books is a refugee. But everyone is running from drought or flood or civil war. I do think a lot about them. You know, not far from here is a road where refugees of all kinds line the roads, and people go there to pick up a plumber or carpenter or something. This isn't an official thing, you know, but there they are. A friend of mine goes there when she wants anything. They are all very skilled people.

With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.

The Carpenter said nothing but"The butter's spread too thick!"

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

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

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

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

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.