“I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksChildrenHardMemoriesStonesAbusePainfulDo You KnowTapeRecordersChiselsPainful Things Author:Anne Heche
“I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.” ShouldRealStoriesCareGivenBitsBehindsStonesDon't CareSavedErasI Don't CareChipsTouristsVictorianVictorian EraChiselsReal StoryUninterestedStonehengeVictorian Times Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.” MenWorldGivingPainFormSufferingHurtPerfectStonesBlowBlockGod LoveDeafSculptorsGod Loves UsChiselsSuffering Pain Author:C. S. Lewis
“Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.” WayStepsCreativityStonesDrivingWrong WayChiselsDance Steps Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.” PeopleWantTryingStatesWholeBodyBigsFormUsedNamesUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCrimeLike YouConcernedStonesThickAshesCover UpsBurialGraniteChiselsCremation Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise. I think that's what I would like most of all.” ThinkingKnowsMenYearsHeartKindI CanMightAbleLastsWaterDealsPromiseThousandTenStonesIntentionThousand YearsHammersChiselsTrough Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.” ThinkingMadePiecesSpecialEventsTerribleStonesSlipsLooking BackChiselsSpecial TimesTerrible Events Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.” PeopleIfsAcceptingWrittenStonesClaimsLimitationHammersUnchangeableChiselsWritten In Stone Book:Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't Source: Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't
“You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.” NeedsSaidFacesNextFeltPracticeDangerousStonesPerfectionSorrySillyPlentyNext TimeChinsLodgesCarvingChisels Author:Shannon Hale
“A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."” IfsHeartSaidWishPrayerDealsStonesBlowLike MeKneesPreacherHammersStatuesMarbleWorkmenCuttersChisels Author:Arthur Tappan Pierson