87 Chisel Quotes
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Famous Chisel Quotes
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. — Auguste Rodin
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. — Elbert Hubbard
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul. — Rumi
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. — Bruce Lee
If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles. — Vietnamese Proverbs
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. — William Shatner
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy
In the house of the blacksmith, a wooden knife — Spanish Proverbs
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo
The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling. — Ovid
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. — Confucius
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end. — Marty Neumeier
Short Chisel Quotes
- Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. — Max Lucado
- Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
- A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant
- It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. — Michelangelo Buonarroti
- It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. — Michelangelo
- Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. — Laurel Lee
Chisel Hammer Quotes
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees." — Arthur Tappan Pierson
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. — Yusef Komunyakaa
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? — Mehmet Murat Ildan
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. — John Ruskin
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments. — Diane Glancy
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures. — Michelangelo
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel. — Peter McWilliams
Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers. — Unknown
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God. — N.D. Wilson
Chisel Out Quotes
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook. — Ken Livingstone
It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows. — Tony Amonte
It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back. — Cassandra Clare
I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. — P. G. Wodehouse
People Writing About Chisel
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Auguste Rodin |
62 | 1298 |
 Frank Lloyd Wright |
221 | 6388 |
 Michelangelo |
141 | 2784 |
 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
1171 | 25085 |
 Elbert Hubbard |
460 | 4958 |
 Rumi |
1754 | 29170 |
More Chisel Quotes
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. — Elisabeth Elliot
Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices. — David Wolfe
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. — Giovannino Guareschi
That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining. — Marc Maron
Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other "eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his. — Simone Elkeles
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine. — Plotinus
The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae. — Emil Kraepelin
I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good. — Leon Russell
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. — Orison Swett Marden
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create. — William Butler Yeats
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. — Virchand Gandhi
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. — Michael Jackson
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher
No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone. — Terry Bradshaw
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. — John Burroughs
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J. I. Packer
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness. — John Ruskin
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here. — Garrett Hedlund
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it. — Dawn Powell
I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal. — Shiko Munakata
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened. — Jerry Seinfeld
Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's. — Ron Kauk
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them. — Ronald Reagan
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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