unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into…

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned…

— Arundhati Roy

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse…

— Plutarch

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to…

— Jenny Han

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight…

— Dante Alighieri

“If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook,…

— Lemony Snicket

“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the…

— Stewart O'Nan

“I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Jana Novotna

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

— Laozi

Simple, like uncarved wood.

— Laozi

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Turn all the lights down

— POB Bismark

L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious because it's…

— Michael C. McMillen

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from…

— Orison S. Marden