Quotes of Craftsman - somelinesforyou

“ Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. ”

- Woody Allen

“ The mechanics are universal. The game really doesn't change much. There's more information, you're able to watch things more closely, but those are tools to help you. ”

- Don Mattingly

“ If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ”

- Larry Wall

“ His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962. ”

- Sean Connery

“ A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Made poetry a mere mechanic art. ”

- William Cowper

“ There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ”

- Georges Pompidou

“ Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie - Franklin P. Jones. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris … no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping. ”

- Orville Wright

“ Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. - Diana Cooper. ”

- Diana Cooper

“ The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year? ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ On every full moon, rituals... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics — women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life… ”

- Starhawk

“ There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. ”

- Hesiod

“ Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali... and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. ”

- Minoru Yamasaki

“ I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. ”

- David Byrne

“ Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50. ”

- Ad Reinhardt

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

- Oliver Reed

“ I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities. ”

- Leslie Caron

“ It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race. ”

- John Murray

“ America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell
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