Quotes About Carving

To die "untimely," as men called it, was the timeliest of all deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.

Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past.

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

Ralph Ripoff's favorite thing was cheating folks out of their hard-earned money; his least favorite thing was getting caught at it (and he'd been getting caught at it quite a lot lately). Gramps's favorite thing was carving monkeys out of peach pits; his least favorite things were Weasel McGreed and his underground gang of henchweasels. Though McGreed and his underground gang had been quiet lately, Gramps wasn't so sure they'd been wiped out by the earthquake

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

Compared to the routine, more coarse, carving of the Apostles and Elders, the monstrous rout seems to have been produced by a more expert sculptor, suggesting a scale of value that did not elevate the Divine archetype over the debased animal.

carving of a fox which carried a baby in its mouth.

Save your carving for the joint, dear Chesarius, I'll not be dissected.

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as "breake that deer, leach that brawn, lift that swan, unbrace that Mallard, allay that Fesant, wing that partridge, disfigure that peacock, dismember hern, and unlace that coney." Lamb

carved dolls stick to the rules.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph.

What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water.

An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.

One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.

With each new carving, he spoke out loud. He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Seto Kaiba: So what if that was you [YÅ«gi] on an ancient Egyptian carving? It's just a relic to me! This is my era! I'm only interested in the enemy in front of me!

tallados con hacha, las tejuelas «de cabeza circular», muy

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.