quotes about Carpenter
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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
-- Alex Winter -
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
-- Arthur GuitermanSource : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine -
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An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
-- Guillermo del Toro -
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
-- Jack Vance -
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I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.
-- John Crowe RansomSource : John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”
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Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.
-- John Crowe RansomSource : Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-- Patrick Duffy -
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Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.
-- Robin Williams -
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
-- Sam Rayburn -
I love everything John Carpenters ever done.
-- D. J. Cotrona -
John Carpenter was very gentle. He was very tender. He really liked talking to actors. He really wanted you to be comfortable. He waited until you were ready to do the scene, and he has a lot of confidence.
-- P. J. Soles -