Lumber Quotes

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.