Quotes About Craftsmanship

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

it wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.

There may be a lot of things I'm not good at, thought Vimes, but at least I don't treat the punctuation of a sentence like a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey…

Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep." "So why do they call it catgut?" asked Rizzoli. "It goes back to the Middle Ages, when gut strings were used on musical instruments. The musicians referred to their instruments as their kit, and the strings were called kitgut. The word eventually became catgut.

He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.

The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

Anytime people engage in something creative or just something they are really passionate about, obviously, it's hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is you are making.

I hone my craft. I keep going. I light a little fire under myself. I look around for roles that will challenge me. And I'm grateful for all the ones I get.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

If a restaurant kitchen is your office, Nom is for you.

If I'm a great artisan of the kitchen, it's because I don't buy my sauces.

Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

Everything I do in business - and in the kitchen, period, I believe - goes from 1940 to 1978. It's the right way. It's the old way.