"carpenter"タグの名言

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

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

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

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

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.