Wood Quotes

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

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

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

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

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.