Woods Quotes · Page 17

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

— Ian Anderson

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

— Gautama Buddha

When things start to feel whacky I'll either walk in the woods or ride or sit. I'll then focus on wellness, affirmations…

— Yannick Bisson

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

— Jim Butcher

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

— Mickey Rourke

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

— Dante Alighieri

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and…

— Jack Kerouac

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,…

— Bliss Carman

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So…

— Emily Carr

Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They…

— Janet Macunovich

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great…

— Charles Dickens

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than…

— Isaac Newton

Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey…

— Karle Wilson Baker

Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent…

— Stephen Curry

Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have…

— Henryk Skolimowski

He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon…

— Charles Dickens

All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc…

— Cory Doctorow

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him…

— Truman Capote

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what…

— Ben Sollee

Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is…

— Lindsey Vonn

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also…

— Leon Battista Alberti

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday…

— Sam Maloof

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

— Sarah Mlynowski

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

— Julie Berry

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

— Theodore Kaczynski

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

— Laozi

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

— Becky Hammon

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

— Philip Larkin

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I…

— Melissa McCarthy

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

— Gary Larson

I'm going to live in the woods one day. Hunt, be weird, not have to listen to people call me a psycho…

— Rory MacDonald

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

— Ellen DeGeneres

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

— Dana Delany

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

— John Amaechi

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

— Richard Roeper

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley