Christopher Paolini Quotes

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with, them. I loved learning a new skill. I will never look at a piece of wrought iron the same way now. I can now make semi-decent knife blades and candlesticks myself.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.