Vita Sackville-West Quotes

I've been making shoes my whole life.

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

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

I'm a builder, first and foremost.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

A trade is better then service.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

By the work one knows the workman.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

I don't care what business it is. I have the greatest respect in the world for that guy that can take an engine apart of a car and put it back together, or the house painter that can paint a perfect line, or the cameraman who can shoot the best shot. We're all talented in our own ways - just some of us make more money than others. That's all.

Each profession has its own toolkit.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

Usually people just hire me.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

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

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.