Wood Quotes - page 4

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. (Christopher Darden)
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. View quote
Carl Perkins
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. View quote
Dick Dale
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. View quote
Duncan Sheik
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. View quote
Greg Lynn
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. View quote
Helmut Jahn
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style. View quote
James Wolcott
I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis. View quote
Jana Novotna
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. View quote
Les Paul
If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl. View quote
Pat Burns
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. (Robert Fortune)
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. View quote
Steve Schirripa
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. View quote
Tim Conway
Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall. View quote
Tom Scholz
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. View quote
Vic Morrow
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood. View quote
Walter Johnson
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. View quote
William Bligh
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. View quote
William Henry Ashley
A four wood I hit on the 13th hole at Bel Air Country Club in June of 1945. It landed right on the green and rolled into the cup for a hole in one. View quote
Fred Astaire
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. View quote
André Leon Talley
Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives'. (Richard Francis Burton)
How you produce volume after volume the way you do is more than I can conceive. ...But you haven't to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts as I do. It is like walking through the densest brush wood. View quote
William James
But two miles more, and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way; Sit then, awhile, here in this wood- So total is the solitude, We safely may delay. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
After a long time the great and awful Name was forgotten and the people, men, women and children, only recognized an image of wood or stone and the temple of wood or stone which they had been brought up from infancy to serve by bowing down. View quote
Maimonides
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. View quote
Edward Thomas (poet)