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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
Angel
Free
Saw
Carved
Until
Him
Marble
Set
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Made
Nothing
Out
Carved
Crooked
Entirely
Timber
Which
Straight
The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
Debbie Harry
You
Impossible
Word
Responsibility
First
Live
Too
Statue
One Thing
Carved
Supposed
Dead
Frequently
Got
Reference
Up
Shocking
Wood
Icon
Iconic
Used
Thing
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.
Jaclyn Smith
Success
People
Tree
Out
Carved
Stick
Just
Happen
Succeed
Success Is
Hard
Who
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
Lindsay Fox
School
Father
Melbourne
Mine
Honour
High
Carved
High School
Driver
Truck
Truck Driver
Name
Disaster
Academically
Got
Cousin
His
Where
Board
Started
Desk
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
Art
Thought
Every
Carved
Greatest
Artist
Form
Hold
Marble
Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone. They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't I have enough?'
Carol S. Dweck
Intelligence
Thinking
Enough
Worry
Some
Carved
About
Something
Students
Fixed
Stone
Start
I think our legacy will always be there. My brothers and I have carved a path for all taekwondo players, not just in the U.S.
Diana Lopez
Path
Will
Think
Our
Carved
Brothers
Always
Legacy
Just
Players
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.
Diane Ackerman
Animal
Walls
Animals
Bone
Our
Ancestors
Ancient
Cartoon
Carved
Drew
Give
Stuffed
Read
Prints
Cave
Just
Wood
Children
Stories
Clutch
Decorate
Homes
Watch
In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.
Doris Duke
Eyes
Other
Air
Locked
Security
Indian
Carved
Only
Purpose
New
Princes
Without
Wives
Bedroom
Were
Off
Screens
Which
Means
Used
Keep
Marble
Shutting
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
Eddie Trunk
Love
People
Out
Tell
Carved
About
Having
Voice
Stuff
Identity
Always
Been
Years
Years Ago
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
Faith Prince
Theatre
Key
Face
Mask
Big
Films
Out
Would
Silent
Carved
Lighting
Call
Been
Lot
Very
Where
Your
Used
Star
Film
Wide
Film Star
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.
Jamie Hince
Love
Politics
Music
Art
Myself
Path
Side
Pleasures
Those
Bad
Immune
Carved
Sort
Always
Affected
Surrounded
Different
Happens
Which
Different Path
Things
I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
Jamie Hince
Music
Guitar
Style
Own
Out
Guitar Player
Carved
My Own
Inspiration
Look
Player
Playing
If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.
Jason Moran
You
Space
Top
OK
Possibility
Run
Carved
Entire
Piano
River
He
Opened
Like
Know
Call
Does
Sound
Hear
Up
Goes
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Lets
Play
Monk
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
Jay Inslee
Constitution
Tolerance
Intolerance
Carved
House
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Should
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
People
Carved
Invaded
Indigenous
Various
Empire
Occupied
Southwest
Middle
Middle Ages
Turkish
Asia
Themselves
Ages
Lands
Inhabitants
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
Kit Williams
Out
Significant
Chariot
Follow
Carved
Pointing
Had
Because
South
Handle
Front
Form
Wherever
Rabbit
Meant
Original
Extended
The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago.
Lawrence Osborne
People
Old
Black
Grass
Ways
Ancient
Abandoned
Carved
Only
Horses
Disappeared
Like
Traces
Buildings
Camels
West
Years
Years Ago
Blond
Left
American
Move
Across
Inhabitants
Many
Filled
Enigmatic
Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
Margot Lee Shetterly
Best
Father
Made
Engineering
Seven
Out
Some
Carved
David
Buddies
His
Five
Woods
Successful
Engineers
Kent
Careers
Sibling
Bones
My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.
Mark Frauenfelder
Back
Way
Right Way
Carved
Sharing
Idea
Days
Like
Toys
Smoked
Traditional
Goes
Wooden
Holiday
Sweaters
Meant
Homemade
Right
Things
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
Nancy Gibbs
Mom
Family
Son
Dinner
Daughter
Carved
Had
Taken
Cleared
Norman
Mode
Norman Rockwell
Did
Dishes
Hold
Cooked
Dad
Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
Nneka
Music
Good
Me
Listening
King
Type
Definitely
Sunny
Carved
Good Times
Like
Well
Am
Conditions
Up
Times
Different
Experiencing
Grew
Who
Different Things
Things
Hardship
Nigeria
The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.
Patrick deWitt
Life
Myself
Home
Son
Say
States
Out
Carved
About
Never
Feels
Like
Sure
Because
Question
Lot
Up
Friends
Quite
Where
Oregon
Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
Peter Landesman
Time
History
Worth
Reflection
Year
Down
Ounce
Our
Melted
Record
Carved
Direct
Silver
More
Through
Particular
Identified
Becomes
Dollars
Than
Often
Human
Movement
Literal
Little
Human History
Engraved
Four
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Primo Levi
Memories
Change
Memory
Lie
Become
Increase
Carved
Only
Tend
Features
Marvelous
Instrument
Within
Go
Erased
Years
Stone
Often
Human
Which
Us
Even
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