#carving

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. ↗

— Michelangelo

#down #easy #go #just #skin

Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs, each an amulet. See the tint; it's very old; like clots of sunshine, aren't they? Now bring it near; see the carving, here corrugated, there faceted, now sculptured into hideous, tiny, heathen gods. You didn't notice that before! How difficult it must have been, when amber is so friable! Here's one with a chessboard on his back, and all his kings and queens and pawns slung round him. Here's another with a torch, a flaming torch, its fire pouring out inverted. They are grotesque enough; but this, this is matchless: such a miniature woman, one hand grasping the round rock behind, while she looks down into some gulf, perhaps, beneath, and will let herself fall. 0, you should see her with a magnifying-glass! You want to think of calm satisfying death, a mere exhalation, a voluntary slipping into another element? There it is for you. They are all gods and goddesses. They are all here but one; I've lost one, the knot of all, the love of the thing. Well! Wasn't it queer for a Catholic girl to have at prayer? ↗

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

#catholic #gods #jewelry #death

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#carving #forward #future #i #interested

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#carving #days #kitchen #lot #ruined

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#done #fox #i #i think #job

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#i #identity #important #out #trying

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#color #cutting #direct #into #me

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#carving #conspiracy #convenient #into #kind