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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Author:
Brigham Young
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.
Author:
Shane Warne
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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.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Author:
Judith Viorst
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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
Author:
Robin Trower
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By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
Author:
John Tenniel
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Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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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.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Author:
Layne Staley
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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?
Author:
Marc Singer
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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.
Author:
Mimi Sheraton
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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.
Author:
Tom Scholz
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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.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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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.
Author:
Jerry Reed
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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
Author:
Suzi Quatro
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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Author:
Charles Perrault
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Author:
Carl Perkins
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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.
Author:
Les Paul
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I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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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.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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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.
Author:
Vic Morrow
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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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.
Author:
Olivier Messiaen
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I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
Author:
John McEnroe
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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.
Author:
Linda McCartney
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
Author:
Pat Mastelotto
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Author:
Gabriel Marquez
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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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.
Author:
James Longstreet
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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.
Author:
Jennifer Lawrence
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I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
Author:
Jennifer Lawrence
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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.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Author:
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
Author:
Walter Johnson
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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.
Author:
Junior Johnson
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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.
Author:
Helmut Jahn
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My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
Author:
Brett Hull
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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.
Author:
Vanessa Hudgens
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Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.
Author:
John Harrison
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Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
Author:
Lawrence Hargrave
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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.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Author:
Robert Frost
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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
Author:
Jean Froissart
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George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.
Author:
Jim Frey
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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.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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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.
Author:
Annie Dillard
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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.
Author:
Trent Dilfer
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Author:
Taye Diggs
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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.
Author:
Christopher Darden
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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.
Author:
Dick Dale
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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.
Author:
Oliver Cromwell
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
Author:
Tim Conway
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Author:
Carlo Collodi
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Author:
Carlo Collodi
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There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Author:
Guy Clark
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
Author:
George Carlin
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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.
Author:
Thomas Bulfinch
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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
Author:
William Bligh
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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.
Author:
Henry Beston
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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.
Author:
Georg Baselitz
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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.
Author:
Karl Barth
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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.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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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.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Author:
Athenaeus
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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.
Author:
William Ashley
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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.
Author:
Tadao Ando
