Quotes About Woodworking

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

My dad, a pretty able woodworker, made me that bed. The smile on that kid's face, the wood slat, the look in his eyes: that photo reminds me that I won the parent lottery.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

To keep your human door sturdy, be careful not to cut within 3" of the bottom.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

What do you do for a living in Maine, Miss Kent?" "I'm a casket maker.

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

I've always considered myself lucky that I could mostly earn a living by doing what I love, but a bonus has been the sheer escape that comes with woodworking. What do they call it? Being in the zone or the flow?

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

He'd found Brodie hand sanding the hull of a sailboat he was in the early stages of building, using an old-fashioned hand lathe on the wood. Cooper had questioned him about it, surprised that he wasn't building the boat up in the big boathouses on land, and using something more high-tech to get the job done. Brodie had just smiled and told him that some boats required a more personal touch and a more personal space. Cooper understood that. Some women needed the same.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.