Carpenter Quotes

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

In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

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

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.

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

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

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

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

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.

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

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.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

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

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

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

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

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

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

The house praises the carpenter.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

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

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.

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

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

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

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

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.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

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.

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

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

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

I love everything John Carpenters ever done.