Top 75 Carve Quotes

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.

For thrillers, it’s especially difficult to carve out a good trailer.

I really do love the theater, and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

After following the footsteps of the greats, each singer must carve out his own identity, else he will perish.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it’s practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Well, chainsaw art is when you pick up a log and carve a mermaid or a dolphin or dogs or bears or whatever. I saw some people doing it in Malibu in the early ’90s and I couldn’t get it out of my head.

But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

I think I was always so resistant to coloring my hair because, you know, when my dad was still alive, it’s so easy for a second- or third-generation wrestler to just copy their predecessor. The hardest thing you can do is try and carve out your own legacy.

I know someone might look at a creative person’s job and think it’s pretty fun. It is. It’s the best thing in the world, but it’s also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

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.

When I read something, first I have an instinctual, emotional response to it. But of course, acting isn’t only just feeling an instinct for what’s going on in the moment with the character. You have to be able to carve it out and consider, follow, and create the whole journey that the character you play is going through.

What we’ve been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It’s awesome, because I’m a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.

I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimentary model, it’s easier to carve unique curves and edges. It’s quite easy to guess how a character is going to react if you know their background, and at a certain point, you realize you understand them personally.

Of course David Moyes is going to come under scrutiny because he’s taken over from a legend in Sir Alex Ferguson and they’ve made their worst start to a season in 24 years. But we mustn’t take away credit from what West Brom did. Few teams go to Old Trafford and dominate the ball and carve out chances the way they did.

For the outside world, it may seem easy to enter into the industry if you belong to a film family, but, trust me, it’s even harder, as you have to not only prove your talent but also carve your own niche and identity.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that – I was infatuated with hip-hop – that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw ‘Wicked,’ it made me feel really cool for being different… and you can carve that in stone!

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn’t want to copy anybody.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

At Sterling, we’re not looking to become a dominating factor in the market. We’re looking for an area to carve out for ourselves. We want to become another BMW.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of cabinets isn’t going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn’t matter how big the kitchen is.

I’m a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.

I’ve been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I’m in the mountains – my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I’m in, I’m in.

It’s really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I’ll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

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.

If I were a star kid, I wouldn’t have tried so many things. I would have done theatre and directly joined movies. I did radio and TV shows because I had to carve my own way. Outsiders like me have to reach Bollywood through modelling, theatre, or radio.

What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren’t just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that’s breaking through.

It’s a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I do want to carry on my dad’s legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don’t want people to think that’s why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

I have to carve my own way. Build. It takes time.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.

It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Let women write horror. Let women write darkness, let women write trauma, without having to carve out their own trauma to justify it.

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He’s my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He’s one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

I don’t want a tombstone. You could carve on it ‘She never actually wanted a tombstone.’

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.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn’t seem normal to anyone else.

I’ve been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?

Football can help carve a more diverse world.

I really don’t do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.