Carpenter Quotations

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

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

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

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

The only material I was on the fence about was using steel studs. But I am a carpenter by trade and I prefer wood over steel. Every time I work with steel studs, I get my hands all cut up.

She's been bugging me forever to do it. I had a friend who's a carpenter that gave me a design that would be sound structurally, and I had some kids help me put it together.

Since this tournament and the sectionals began, Ryan Carpenter has been outstanding for us.

My eighth-grade classes unanimously voted to organize a clothing drive. The students at Carpenter Middle School are coming together to help for the sake of helping.

On that play, you have to give Coal City's safety credit. We planned earlier to use that play and we kept our tight end to block. Carpenter noticed that and drifted over to the middle of the field for the interception. We dug ourselves a tough hole but we survived.

I am extremely excited to be a part of Vision Racing. Tony George and Ed Carpenter have built a solid foundation and the team is moving in the right direction. I have my engineer, David Cripps, with me and we have a solid working relationship. The time that I have had in the off-season with Larry Curry has been encouraging. He is incredibly motivated to win races, and that is what I am looking forward to doing, winning races.

If Bobby Carpenter had been at one spot during his career, he might have had more production. He's not quite as productive as A.J., but when they walk into a room together, you're more impressed with Carpenter in terms of the way he looks.

I faced Chris Carpenter in my last start, and he's probably going to win the Cy Young Award, so it didn't faze me at all.

To fall behind 2-0 and then come back and score two runs and then again to fall back by four runs, making it 6-2, and tying it up in the bottom of that innings against the guy the caliber of Carpenter is a good feeling. We had a lot of timely hits. Overbay and Billy Hall had big nights. Even Cappy had two big hits to help his cause.

Keep the doors closed and replace weather stripping where necessary. Cutting back branches from your home also may help deter carpenter ants from gaining entry.

John Carpenter liked my work, and he needed some kind of name for the picture. The script was good, and I immediately liked John, so I did it.

Our vineyard and Carpenter Hill are the warmest in the valley.

Right now, the dust is settling and all you can do is think, 'Where do we go from here? Where do you start?' ... You can't call the local carpenter to come build your house. His house is gone, too.

My pick would be Willis, because this team is not always running on all gears, ... St. Louis was like a machine this year. You don't penalize Carpenter for that. But to me, it's Willis. If nothing else, we couldn't beat him.

It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that.

I love everything John Carpenters ever done.

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

When you play at the Carpenter Center you don't get a chance to practice on the floor, so you're really coming in here cold. Once we were able to settle down, we were OK.

To get this win off of a guy the caliber of Chris Carpenter , it's just a huge win for us. We had timely hits and big nights out of J.J. (Hardy), Overbay, and Billy (Hall).

Bobby Carpenter makes things happen. He's a nightmare for those tackles when he's rushing. He's got tremendous range as a linebacker and covers so much ground. I don't see him get blocked very often. He makes plays.

The roof came with this thick book of instructions. But we had a carpenter and an electrician volunteering, so we figured it out.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Of course we're better off. We got Carpenter healthy, and we got Mark Mulder. I'm not taking anything away from the other guys, but those two guys at the front of the rotation? They're pretty good.

Coach Cole first saw me play in the Carpenter Cup and after that he stayed in touch. I really like the school and Coach Cole. I looked at a couple of other schools, but a Penn education is hard to pass up. I went to camps there in October and January. I'm grateful for the opportunity.

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

This place is known for its linebackers - great linebackers - and with Hawk, Carpenter and Schlegel, that's three of them right there. My mindset since I got here is to come in, work as hard as I can, learn the system, and hopefully earn a starting spot. There's a lot of competition, but that should make all of us better.

It's a totally different club when you have a Chris Carpenter and a Mark Mulder in the starting rotation.

It's going to be hard not to vote for Carpenter. If Roger keeps going like he's going and Carpenter keeps going like he's going, it's going to be a tough call.

It was just a case of agreeing to disagree. We felt it was in the best interest of both the Capitals and Bobby Carpenter to make a move. He was not totally happy with his treatment by the organization over the last several years.

I know Carpenter is a good pitcher. I was trying to go deep into the game, hold them and try to help the team.

Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I can always tell my kids, even when they stop listening to their old dad, that I was in the running with Roger Clemens and Chris Carpenter to win a prestigious award. It's not that bad to be the second-best pitcher in the league.

Carpenter did an amazing job, ... We all knew he had had a couple of bad outings. But there was no doubt in my mind he would be the Carpenter we knew and we had seen all year.

Carpenter and Owens are both good players. Burnett and Meadows looked pretty good on the film we saw. They kind of jumped out at us,

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

A carpenter is known by his chips.