You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able to carve out true, work-free leisure at some point. But there's been a kind of sneaky reframing of work as play as the Silicon Valley model has been imported into other fields. Now you see adult offices that look like nursery schools, and staff paintball parties, work cultures that encourage the "We're a family here!" fantasy while preventing workers from going home at a reasonable hour to be with their actual families.
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.
The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it. " -Fang
Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone. '
The best way to carve is not to split.
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.
When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.