Woodcarver Quotes & Sayings

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by. — Fred Ward

The bathroom was jungle-fogged, flooded with puddles, piled with soaked towels; cakes of soap with long strands of blonde baked in.
A girl in pieces: Barbie-thin ankles, a shaving cut on her knee; hipbones she could stab you with; white hands gelled with strawberry body lotion. — Allyse Near

You can never die. With death, you transform and transcend. — Debasish Mridha

And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you. — Ahmed Mostafa

She would have auctioned off the Milky Way if it would have made his intentions a little less honorable — Marissa Meyer

Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. With one exception, she'd revealed these to Johanna and then to Woodcarver, and - after it was founded - to the Executive Council. Ravna had kept her mouth shut about the surveillance suite; she and the Children were trapped on a world of medieval strangers.

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So at the beginning Ravna had kept some secrets. It was now years too late to reveal this one. In the Beyond, "cameras" were more than what early tech civilizations imagined. Cameras could be a coat of paint, or critters that looked like insects, or even a bacterial infection. Delivery of the information to the observer could be even stranger, a diffuse cloud of perturbations - acoustic, visual, thermal - that took enormous processing to reconstruct. — Vernor Vinge

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose. — Sandy Duncan

We create beautiful and lasting things, build vast civilizations." "Gorgeous evasions," he said. "Great escapes. — Don DeLillo

Master Fellows surprised Ellysetta with an unexpected compliment. "You have a natural regal grace, my lady, and it has been the greatest of pleasures to teach you. Just remember, while some part of you may always be Ellie, the woodcarver's daughter, you are also Lady Ellysetta, the Tairen Soul's queen." He bowed and kissed her hand. "At the palace tonight, let Ellysetta reign. — C.L. Wilson

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people. — Kerry Washington

I left my soul at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar. If found, don't return follow me into the endless night. — Michelle Hughes

The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents. — Babette Deutsch

Anyone can overdress.
The true art is stripping the extraneous. — Jacob Oet

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it. — Robert Battle

Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me ... and the same is true for you. — Anita Moorjani

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr. — Philip Larkin

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. — Evan Williams