Whittling Quotes

• It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

  James Victore

  Perfect, Design

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• I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Cutting, Gentleman, Return

  "Fictional character: Albert Rosenfeld". "Twin Peaks". Season 1, Episode 4, April 26, 1990.

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• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Writing, Perfect, Choices

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• Sí, tómate un poco de tiempo para jugar Y mira la vida de otra manera. Dios descansó cuando se hizo el mundo: Descansa ahora, viejo amigo; no temas. Pero no pienses que tu trabajo ha terminado, Que ahora eres un vagabundo sin pies, Un vagabundo por caminos ociosos, Achicando los días dorados. Porque en el camino que sube a la meta No hay descanso largo para un alma. No hay pausa larga: en cada altura Otra cumbre nada a la vista. El largo camino asciende, escena tras escena, con pequeños descansos intermedios.

  Edwin Markham

  Pensamiento, Vista, Días Dorados

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• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Bills, Troops

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• Mucho de lo que publican los escritores de la tradición religiosa es un escándalo y está alejando a la gente de la Iglesia. Los escritores liberales que están continuamente acomodando y reduciendo la verdad del Evangelio son los responsables.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, People, Church

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Stories, Way

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit.

  David Letterman

  Trying, Today, Sitting

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• No se puede confiar en los hombres con las tijeras de podar más de lo que se puede confiar en ellos con el dinero de la compra en una tienda de delicatessen. . . Son como niños con navajas nuevas que no paran de tallar.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Boys, Men, Knives

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• I'm one of those guys where you know, I'm 23 years into this and I love the road more than ever and rather than whittling down my schedule to just play the major cities, I've actually expanded the amount of places that I go to because I want to see a bunch of stuff. You know, plan it as I can while I'm still young enough to travel.

  Bill Burr

  Years, Play, Cities

  "Interview with comedian Bill Burr". Interview with Riley Coven, www.smudailycampus.com. September 17, 2015.

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• The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

  William O'Neil

  Pride, Simple, Ideas

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• I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.

  Bear Grylls

  Fun, Fire, Eight

  "Me fui de acampada con Bear Grylls y sobreviví". Entrevista con Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. 20 de noviembre de 2014.

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• In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Opportunity, Fans, Way

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• La predicación de la fe no ha perdido nada de su actualidad. La Iglesia tiene el deber sagrado de proclamarla sin cortapisas, tal como Cristo la reveló, y ninguna consideración de tiempo o circunstancia puede disminuir el rigor de esta obligación.

  Papa Pío XII

  Church, Sacred, Christ

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• Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Cutting, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1487, Delacorte Press

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• Cada vez se presiona más a los estudiantes para que se sometan a más exámenes, reduciéndolos a filas y filas de números enteros negros sobre un expediente académico, listos para pasar directamente a un ordenador.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Black, Tests, Pressure

  Leah Hager Cohen (2003). “Heart, You Bully, You Punk”, Viking Press

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