Carpenter Quotes

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs

Beautiful, Making, Though

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Home, Making

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus

Made, Mankind, Remade

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed

Good, Needs, Hammer

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

Down, Takes, Build

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones

Family, Good, Father

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict

Work, History, Nice

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

Good, Down, Takes

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg

Game, Different, Thought

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
Sebastian Vettel

Family, Dad, Together

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence

Idea, Vision, Halloween

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram

Great, Done, Anyone

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier

Serious, Sense, Films

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
Jim Evans

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.
Tom Sizemore

Football, Different, Through

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
Jack Vance

Time, Everybody, Watches

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
Jack Vance

Time, Mentioned

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
Dave Van Ronk

Together, Might, Common

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
Casper Van Dien

Movies, Action, Tarzan

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Alex Winter

Great, Original, Remakes

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.
Betty Buckley

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
Donald Pleasence

End, Said, Looking

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
Guillermo del Toro

Others, Films, John

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.
Michael Pitt

Wanted, Actor, Singer

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi

Child, Found, Happened

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo

Time, Movies, Move

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.
Misha Collins

Live, Through, College

If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
Avery Brooks

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.
Masa Takayama

Food, Simple, Job

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