Quotes about Wood

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down. Votes: 4

Wood feeds the fire which burns it. Votes: 3

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. Votes: 3

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood. Votes: 3

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.] Votes: 3

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight Votes: 3

Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I. Votes: 3

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music. Votes: 3

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. Votes: 3

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. Votes: 3

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. Votes: 3

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish. Votes: 3

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work. Votes: 3

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. Votes: 3

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry. Votes: 3

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. Votes: 3

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool. Votes: 3

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. Votes: 3

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood. Votes: 3

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Votes: 3

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Votes: 3

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain. Votes: 3

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood. Votes: 3

After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy. Votes: 3

Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. Votes: 3

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign. Votes: 3

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Votes: 3

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. Votes: 3

[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together. Votes: 3

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. Votes: 3

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself. Votes: 3

Elijah Wood from Lord Of The Rings can't get married with a girl named Holly beacause it would make Holly Wood get it HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Votes: 3

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. Votes: 3

George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it. Votes: 3

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Votes: 3

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool. Votes: 3

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO! Votes: 3

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. Votes: 3

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. Votes: 3

Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. Votes: 3

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. Votes: 3

Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. Votes: 3

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare. Votes: 3

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world. Votes: 3

Wood pellet grilling could potentially have a lower risk of cancer when compared to other forms of grilling, as some people say that it leads to the creation of fewer carcinogens. Votes: 3

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. Votes: 3

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat. Votes: 3

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy. Votes: 3

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well. Votes: 3

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? Votes: 3

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief. Votes: 3

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy. Votes: 3

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.... Votes: 3

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' Votes: 3

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. Votes: 3

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Votes: 3

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know Votes: 3

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell! Votes: 3

I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again. Votes: 3

Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all. Votes: 3

To me, Elijah Wood is one of the best actors of my generation. He's so incredibly present and in the moment, when you're working with him, and then we just chat away about anything off camera because he's a lovely guy. Votes: 3

In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan, cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level. Votes: 3

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven"”where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with"”he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge. Votes: 3

The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So "” that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?" "What's basketball?" said Wood curiously. "Never mind," said Harry quickly. Votes: 3

I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music. Votes: 3

We're friends, and we're both friends with actresses our age, but we never get to work with each other because there's one girl in the movie, or whatever. For me, it was just so amazing to get to work with Evan [Rachel Wood], who I've loved forever. Votes: 3

Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob. Votes: 3

I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank. Votes: 3

Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process. Votes: 3

Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably. Votes: 3

Angelina, Alicia, and Katie suddenly giggled. "What?" said Wood, frowning at this lighthearted behavior. "He's that tall, good-looking one, isn't he?" said Angelina. "Strong and silent," said Katie, and they started to giggle again. "He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together," said Fred impatiently. Votes: 3

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser! Votes: 3

Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood. Votes: 3

I love beautiful wood. Votes: 0

Simple, like uncarved wood. Votes: 0

Boys need wood to chop. Votes: 0

Rotten wood cannot be carved. Votes: 0

When you chop wood, splinters fly Votes: 0

"One impulse from a vernal wood Votes: 0

When you chop wood, chips fly. Votes: 0

Greene wood makes a hott fire. Votes: 0

Music’s a wood you walk through. Votes: 0

Follow the grain in your own wood.... Votes: 0

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph. Votes: 0

Time can make soft that iron wood. Votes: 0

You must prune dead or dying wood. Votes: 0

The knots in the wood can't be untied Votes: 0

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp. Votes: 0

Get off the cross, we need the wood. Votes: 0

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood. Votes: 0

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. Votes: 0

I read like the flame reads the wood. Votes: 0

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin. Votes: 0

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character." Votes: 0

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character. Votes: 0

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath. Votes: 0

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. Votes: 0

Songs from the wood make you feel much better. Votes: 0

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood. Votes: 0

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. Votes: 0

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot Votes: 0

you must not use wood to put out the fire. Votes: 0

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood. Votes: 0

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine Votes: 0

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees. Votes: 0

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world. Votes: 0

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. Votes: 0

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names. Votes: 0

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood. Votes: 0

It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that. Votes: 0

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood. Votes: 0

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. Votes: 0

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood. Votes: 0

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice Votes: 0

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10. Votes: 0

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. Votes: 0

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood. Votes: 0

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. Votes: 0

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. Votes: 0

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. Votes: 0

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.] Votes: 0

He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. Votes: 0

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Votes: 0

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. Votes: 0

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood. Votes: 0

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood. Votes: 0

Am I the only one who has wood over that little vixen? Votes: 0

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood. Votes: 0

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery! Votes: 0

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. Votes: 0

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge Votes: 0

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. Votes: 0

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few Votes: 0

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist. Votes: 0

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Votes: 0

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet. Votes: 0

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms. Votes: 0

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? Votes: 0

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water Votes: 0

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. Votes: 0

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different. Votes: 0

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood. Votes: 0

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry. Votes: 0

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. Votes: 0

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. Votes: 0

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood. Votes: 0

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records Votes: 0

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. Votes: 0

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. Votes: 0

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. Votes: 0

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. Votes: 0

For f*ck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood" ~Zsadist Votes: 0

When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water. Votes: 0

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. Votes: 0

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. Votes: 0

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. Votes: 0

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood. Votes: 0

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England. Votes: 0

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. Votes: 0

I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. Votes: 0

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. Votes: 0

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves. Votes: 0

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? Votes: 0

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that. Votes: 0

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Votes: 0

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. Votes: 0

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert. Votes: 0

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn. Votes: 0

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. Votes: 0

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. Votes: 0

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Votes: 0

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. Votes: 0

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Votes: 0

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. Votes: 0

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable. Votes: 0

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch. Votes: 0

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. Votes: 0

Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. Votes: 0

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? Votes: 0

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. Votes: 0

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Votes: 0

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway. Votes: 0

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart. Votes: 0

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. Votes: 0

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. Votes: 0

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood. Votes: 0

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. Votes: 0

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. Votes: 0

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold. Votes: 0

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow. Votes: 0

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. Votes: 0

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. Votes: 0

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him. Votes: 0

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it. Votes: 0

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. Votes: 0

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. Votes: 0

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine. Votes: 0

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Votes: 0

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood. Votes: 0

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. Votes: 0

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth Votes: 0

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. Votes: 0

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. Votes: 0

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood. Votes: 0

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. Votes: 0

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 0

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind. Votes: 0

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. Votes: 0

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood. Votes: 0

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. Votes: 0

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not! Votes: 0

Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it Votes: 0

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood. Votes: 0

Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow. Votes: 0

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross. Votes: 0

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. Votes: 0

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. Votes: 0

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw. Votes: 0

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood Votes: 0

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. Votes: 0

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. Votes: 0

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Votes: 0

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis. Votes: 0

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am. Votes: 0

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. Votes: 0

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins. Votes: 0

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. Votes: 0

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Votes: 0

Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood. Votes: 0

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude. Votes: 0

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. Votes: 0

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. Votes: 0

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. Votes: 0

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing. Votes: 0

I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph- Votes: 0

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then. Votes: 0

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy Votes: 0

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. Votes: 0

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood. Votes: 0

My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal. Votes: 0

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. Votes: 0

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves. Votes: 0

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood. Votes: 0

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. Votes: 0

When I said that Mercy stoodWithin the borders of the wood,I meant the lenient beast with clawsAnd bloody swift-dispatching jaws. Votes: 0

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood. Votes: 0

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Votes: 0

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. Votes: 0

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. Votes: 0

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. Votes: 0

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. Votes: 0

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you. Votes: 0

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. Votes: 0

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Votes: 0

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. Votes: 0

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. Votes: 0

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. Votes: 0

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. Votes: 0

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. Votes: 0

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that. Votes: 0

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ... Votes: 0

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Votes: 0

In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood. Votes: 0

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. Votes: 0

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Votes: 0

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go. Votes: 0

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. Votes: 0

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it Votes: 0

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head. Votes: 0

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Votes: 0

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Votes: 0

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood. Votes: 0

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood. Votes: 0

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. Votes: 0

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan! Votes: 0

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire. Votes: 0

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. Votes: 0

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned. Votes: 0

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. Votes: 0

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not. Votes: 0

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. Votes: 0

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does. Votes: 0

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out Votes: 0

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. Votes: 0

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives. Votes: 0

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone Votes: 0

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood. Votes: 0

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. Votes: 0

Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. Votes: 0

Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it. Votes: 0

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood. Votes: 0

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips. Votes: 0

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made. Votes: 0

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split. Votes: 0

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. Votes: 0

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper. Votes: 0

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. Votes: 0

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT! Votes: 0

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results. Votes: 0

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers! Votes: 0

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite. Votes: 0

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . . Votes: 0

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. Votes: 0

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air. Votes: 0

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money. Votes: 0

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood. Votes: 0

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Votes: 0

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. Votes: 0

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. Votes: 0

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. Votes: 0

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. Votes: 0

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. Votes: 0

A burial should be more than a fire pit, arena seating, and a squirming politician strapped to a pile of wood. There should also be marshmallows. Votes: 0

I really like natural, warm finishes. I like any of the natural stones, the oiled wood that is kind of a pre-finished flooring. I'm very tactile. Votes: 0

Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. Votes: 0

Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood. Votes: 0

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. Votes: 0

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms. Votes: 0

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. Votes: 0

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. Votes: 0

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright. Votes: 0

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes. Votes: 0

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Votes: 0

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. Votes: 0

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think. Votes: 0

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone. Votes: 0

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper. Votes: 0

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. Votes: 0

You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring. Votes: 0

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. Votes: 0

Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac treeFrom which a small wood-owl calls. Votes: 0

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up. Votes: 0

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury. Votes: 0

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. Votes: 0

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. Votes: 0

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it? Votes: 0

I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I stood, Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood. Votes: 0

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way. Votes: 0

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. Votes: 0

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. Votes: 0

Blacks should never be shown the greener pastures of education, they should know that their station in life is to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. Votes: 0

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. Votes: 0

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood. Votes: 0

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth. Votes: 0

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. Votes: 0

I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood. Votes: 0

Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.) Votes: 0

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music. Votes: 0

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and It's better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Votes: 0

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Votes: 0

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god. Votes: 0

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread. Votes: 0

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Votes: 0

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. Votes: 0

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways. Votes: 0

Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall. Votes: 0

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. Votes: 0

Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud. Votes: 0

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things. Votes: 0

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Votes: 0

It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood. Votes: 0

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me. Votes: 0

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move. Votes: 0

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls. Votes: 0

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.... Votes: 0

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. Votes: 0

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves. Votes: 0

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. Votes: 0

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. Votes: 0

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen. Votes: 0

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert. Votes: 0

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all. Votes: 0

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. Votes: 0

Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking. Votes: 0

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness... Votes: 0

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk. Votes: 0

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests. Votes: 0

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. Votes: 0

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch. Votes: 0

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice. Votes: 0

The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?" Votes: 0

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. Votes: 0

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love. Votes: 0

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like! Votes: 0

Didn't your mother ever tell you the only way to kill us is to cut us into pieces? You should have brought a wood chipper instead of a gun. (Wulf) Votes: 0

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair. Votes: 0

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. Votes: 0

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. Votes: 0

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood. Votes: 0

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas. Votes: 0

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round. Votes: 0

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude. Votes: 0

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring Votes: 0

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. Votes: 0

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome Votes: 0

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare. Votes: 0

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. Votes: 0

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing. Votes: 0

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind. Votes: 0

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister. Votes: 0

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. Votes: 0

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are. Votes: 0

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love. Votes: 0

We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say. Votes: 0

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Votes: 0

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend. Votes: 0

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement. Votes: 0

I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other. Votes: 0

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid. Votes: 0

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. Votes: 0

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything. Votes: 0

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. Votes: 0

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor. Votes: 0

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it. Votes: 0

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines. Votes: 0

Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!" Votes: 0

Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond Votes: 0

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars. Votes: 0

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed. Votes: 0

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood. Votes: 0

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. Votes: 0

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out. Votes: 0

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time. Votes: 0

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved. Votes: 0

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time. Votes: 0

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain. Votes: 0

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone. Votes: 0

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential. Votes: 0

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that? Votes: 0

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again. Votes: 0

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring. Votes: 0

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud. Votes: 0

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play. Votes: 0

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us! Votes: 0

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star. Votes: 0

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand. Votes: 0

My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around. Votes: 0

Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood provides the highest requirements for fire safety in Canada. Votes: 0

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood. Votes: 0

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Votes: 0

October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth. Votes: 0

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman. Votes: 0

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. Votes: 0

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below. Votes: 0

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock. Votes: 0

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. Votes: 0

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me. Votes: 0

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Votes: 0

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. Votes: 0

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. Votes: 0

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. Votes: 0

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. Votes: 0

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation. Votes: 0

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood. Votes: 0

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it. Votes: 0

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees. Votes: 0

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic. Votes: 0

Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their heads. Votes: 0

You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man. Votes: 0

I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after. Votes: 0

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body. Votes: 0

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind. Votes: 0