Wood Quotes

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

I love beautiful wood.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

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

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.