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carve Quotes and Quotations
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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. Lawrence Barrett | top
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. Louise Bogan | top
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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do. Rosanne Cash | top
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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. Jonathan Coe | top
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Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. Placido Domingo | top
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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. Leslie Fiedler | top
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. Ira Glass | top
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? Robert Browning Hamilton | top
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens. James Hillman | top
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes | top
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. James Houston | top
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It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it. Holly Hunter | top
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Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. Jay Inslee | top
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Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other. Karen Kain | top
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant | top
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi | top
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo | top
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. Bill Monroe | top
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Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. Rudolf Otto | top
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? John Ruskin | top
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | top
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. Mimi Sheraton | top
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon | top
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I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear. Steven Tyler | top
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I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses. Catherine Zeta-Jones | top
