#carpenter

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#arabia #carpenter #first #first thing #i

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

— Alex Winter

#carpenter #certain #great #original #remakes

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#build #carpenter #down #jackass #kick

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#barn #build #carpenter #down #good

There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#carpenter #house #nest #walden #family

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #michael-carpenter #humor