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Wood Quotes

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men Man Thoughts Stone Wishes Wood

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

Life My Life Wood Never Complete

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

Abbas Kiarostami

Time Me Doing Sometimes Wood Piece

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Me Wish You Said Wood I Wish

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Melissa McCarthy

Day House Wood Over Blocks Spend

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

Me Fashion Guitar Paths Say Wood

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

Good Feet Bad Execution Wood Missed

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

Best Hands Down Wood Actress Ever

I only realized I could potentially make movies after seeing 'Ed Wood.'

Seeing Movies Wood Only Make After

The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.

Daughter Great Food Summer Wood Out

I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.

River Look Go New Wood Island

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Balance I Am Me You Wood Shoulder

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

Work Furniture Wood Make Like Apart

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Sweet Long Wood More Sound Pieces

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

Wood Carpenter Countryside Like

The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access to through precipitation.

Water Tree Plant Growing Wood

The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.

Water Bible Confused View Wood Us

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Elvira Nabiullina

Trees Criticism Pressure You Wood

I love beautiful wood.

Love Beautiful Wood I Love

Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey's first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of 'B Is for Burglar.'

Wood First Same Over Her Stay

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Lawrence Hargrave

Wood Flexible More Metal Weight

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Harvey Fierstein

Work Week Play Nice Wood Actor

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

Heart Day Walls Sun Bad Wood

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Live Reading Story Black Wood Marks

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