Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine
BadDoneWoodFirstCompanyHead
No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
Olivier Messiaen
MusicStonePlayWoodMustText
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi
ChildWoodCherryCarpenterHappened
I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
Jo Brand
GreatThoughtRememberWoodShe
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.
Melissa McCarthy
WorkThinkBackI CanGoWood
Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It's really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it's not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.
Matt Hardy
PeopleNightHurtYouBodyWood
I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.
Steve Schirripa
LightsWoodLeatherClubJustWould
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
WoodSpecialGrainMakeMillCould
Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.
Jose Andres
SweetYouSmokeWoodTryHot
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
Dick Dale
PhilosophyWoodSoundBiggerString
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young
RememberWoodShoulderUpSureSign
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
William Henry Ashley
TimeForwardReachLossWoodBecome
Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
Thomas Bulfinch
SwordWoodLeatherThroughMetal
When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.
Linda McCartney
IsolationYouKnowNiceWoodLondon
I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Jana Novotna
BackGoWoodTouchTennisSee
A tree's wood is also its memoir.
Hope Jahren
TreeWoodMemoirAlso
I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.
Future
LoveCharacterHorseWoodInside
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
Ellsworth Kelly
MeSculptureWoodCanvasAlways
It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.
Bryce Harper
FunnyMeWoodNeverShoulderInjury
We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.
Virginia Postrel
WorldDesignLookLightsGlassWood
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Layne Staley
DeathWoodThingsGotChangedEven
I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.
Harry Dean Stanton
MeGolfDrivingPlaceWoodRoof
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.
Daniel Radcliffe
WoodGetMistakenConstantly
Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
Vic Morrow
MoneyWoodRightProductionUsedUs
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