Top 40 Carving Quotes

When we work on carving out balance in our lives, we are then shuttled to the superhighway of our best life fueled by our intention. The power and confidence comes from the knowledge that we can absolutely do something to achieve balance.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

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

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Carving out our own role, distinct from America’s, might not be easy. But we must ask ourselves: what alternative is there? Unthinking, uncritical loyalty to the U.S. under Donald Trump is a far less appealing idea.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he’s on his way to carving out the very best career that’s ever happened in the NBA.

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.

I put running into my schedule just as I put anything else whether it’s a meeting or an event or a dinner. I think carving out time to run or exercise gives you brain power and makes you more efficient in other aspects of your life, so it’s worth taking the time.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there’s this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I’m in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

I get told a lot that I’m kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone’s OK with it.

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.

I know some bands that don’t like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it’s become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

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.

I didn’t know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they’re extraordinary.

I’m fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

It’s important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it’s super great.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

‘Buncha Losers’ comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama’s face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you’re putting your work out on the line, it’s also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

I’m a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood – I’ve carved two of my guitars.

I’m just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form.

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men’s magazines, coconut monkey carvings, ’70s belt buckles.

I’ve always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

The U.S. actions in Kosovo – carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation – provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.

It’s actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It’s a matter of carving away what doesn’t fit rather than building up from nothing.

I’m always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L’Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system – strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.