Carve Quotes

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War, Tomorrow, Poor

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

Good, Best, Character

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

Before, Speak, Word

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

Life, Create, Sculpture

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Character, Themselves, Within

Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Before, Word, Fall

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

Life, Past, Before

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

Time, Night, Friday

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
Mehmet Oz

Time, Person, Else

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Sometimes, Difficult, Anyone

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
Emma Roberts

Person, Career, Trying

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
James Hillman

Nothing, Lives, Happens

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.
Lev Grossman

Words, Until, Weekend

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
Ina Garten

Fun, Important, Everything

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
Emily Blunt

Trying, Enjoy, Find

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.
Walter Isaacson

Trust, Good, Universe

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
Jude Law

Career, Try, Risk

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

Time, Sure, Daughter

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
Rosanne Cash

Find, Place, Needed

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

Money, Live, Wife

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
Peter Weir

Big, Trees, Birds

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.
Tyler Florence

End, Big, Matter

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
Ali Smith

Wanted, She, Actually

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.
Susan Collins

Job, Away, Reason

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.
Dave Franco

Smart, Career, Path

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

Yourself, Everything, Same

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

Travel, Daily, Hard

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

Music, Anybody, Determined

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