#carve

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

#asia #carved #during #empire #indigenous

IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be. ↗

— Shiree McCarver

#historical-romance #humor #interracial-romance #satyrs #shiree-mccarver

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#baby #being #brat #cage #carve

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carved #i #myself #out #really

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#days #early #fast #finger #guitar

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#bit #carve #crowd #enjoy #find

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#carved #marble #out #statue #work

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#find #going #i #my own #needed

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#better #big #cabinets #carve #chicken

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#agent #brought #career #carved #chile