Best 23 quotes in «carpenter quotes» category

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

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

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

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

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

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

John Carpenter was very gentle. He was very tender. He really liked talking to actors. He really wanted you to be comfortable. He waited until you were ready to do the scene, and he has a lot of confidence.

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

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

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

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

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

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.

The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us!

The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we refuse to carry out the functions we were created for, our father loses the glory He deserves!

The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man with substance and wisdom of gold. What if God was dressed as a carpenter with dirty nails and beaten boots? Would you recognize your Maker? Would you give him your time? Your vote? A cup of tea or water? Only those with truth in them will recognize truth. And you must learn to recognize all that is untrue to get the truth.

You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

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

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