Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
There is a strong need for people with some construction and carpentry experience. But everyone is needed.
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader
We just kind of put the word out there, and the people who came together were really wonderful. Several of us have different carpentry skills.
Anyone with carpentry skills, or just a strong back, is welcome to come out and help us with some of these repairs.
You name it. We have been known to do carpentry and a lot of landscaping, painting.
I'm being taught the carpentry skills. I'm being taught how to level stuff off and to cut stuff and measurement and the difference kinds of wood.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.