Cabinetmaker Quotes & Sayings

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one. — Billy Corgan

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. — Francis Bacon

Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming. — Hillary Clinton

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. — Christian Louboutin

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude. — Mark Spitz

His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart. — Louise Penny

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary ... — Bertrand Russell

We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path. — Mark Nepo

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it. — Theodor Adorno

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him. — Nicholas Sparks

Let's not get naughty.
How about homicidal instead? — Lora Leigh

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point. — Sarah Gadon

Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency. — Hanif Kureishi

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others — Peter Abelard

Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt no spontaneous attraction to any occupation. Rather sceptically, he looked over the array of available possibilities: prosecutors, who spend their whole lives persecuting people; schoolteachers, the butt of rowdy children; science and technology, whose advances bring enormous harm along with a small benefit; the sophisticated, empty chatter of the social sciences; interior design (which appealed to him because of his memories of his cabinetmaker grandfather), utterly enslaved by fashions he detested; the occupation of the poor pharmacists now reduced to peddlars of boxes and bottles. When he wondered; what should I choose for my whole life's work? his inner self would fall into the most uncomfortable silence. — Milan Kundera

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly! — Richard Hammond

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did. — Kathryn Stockett