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Quotes About Woodworking

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.
~ Joseph Monninger
Chisels and hammers may suffice to work a piece of wood, but for etching we require an etcher's needle. Thus common sense and speculative understanding are both useful, but each in its own way: the former in judgments which apply immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, where sound common sense, so called in spite of the inappropriateness of the word, has no right to judge at all.
~ Immanuel KANT (1724 - 1804)
tallados con hacha, las tejuelas «de cabeza circular», muy
~ Isabel Allende
I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
~ Susan Orlean
He had taken up woodworking, there was sawdust on his soft worn trousers; his wife had wrapped a scarf around his neck and kissed his cheek as he went out.
~ Tana French
A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working.
~ Author Unknown
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
~ Tatiana Maslany
When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.
~ Misha Collins
Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
~ Brit Morin
Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.
~ Unknown
I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.
~ Ethan Canin
Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.
~ Thomas Middleditch
his carpentry skills put him in demand building speaker cabinets.
~ Unknown
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
~ John Henry Carver
My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.
~ Anne Hathaway
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke