Holly Marie Combs Quotes

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

I'm not handy.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

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.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

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.