Marquetry Quotes & Sayings

The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Make me remember you like you remember me — The Weeknd

...that's when I realized that Bianca doesn't really take drugs - just a few poppers and maybe some coke once in a while but otherwise she's not on drugs, she's normal. — Andy Warhol

Wood is an endlessly adaptive material. You can plane, chisel, saw, carve, sand, and bend it, and when the pieces are the shape you want you can use dovetail joints, tenpenny nails, pegs or glue; you can use lamination or inlay or marquetry; and then you can beautify it with French polish or plain linseed oil or subtle stains. And when you go to dinner at a friend's house, the candlelight will pick out the contours of grain and line, and when you take your seat you will be reminded that what you are sitting on grew from the dirt, stretched towards the sun, weathered rain and wind, and sheltered animals; it was not extruded by faceless machines lined on a cold cement floor and fed from metal vats. Wood reminds us where we come from. — Nicola Griffith

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call. — John Scott

Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief. — Nalini Singh

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind
you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell. — Fran Lebowitz