Wood Quotes

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

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.

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.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.