Woods Quotes · Page 23

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

— Benjamin Hoff

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin

“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”

— Jennifer Lynch

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess…

— B. Wayne Hughes

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

— Ray Mears

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then…

— Robert Stone

“Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews.…

— Ariel Gordon

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear…

— John Milton

I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on…

— Corey Pavin

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that…

— Christopher Darden

They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come…

— Frederick Lenz

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is…

— Jack Nicklaus

If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel…

— Charlaine Harris

The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab…

— Shel Silverstein

She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sunken-place entrants include Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Tiger Woods, O.J. Simpson, sometimes Kanye West, and any black person with something nice to…

— Wesley Morris

If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade…

— Harvey Diamond

Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural…

— Pentti Linkola

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them…

— Siegfried Sassoon

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods…

— Wendell Berry

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

— John Dewey

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do…

— Meister Eckhart

“What's the occasion?" I ask. He glances up at me and takes a deep breath. "You're the occasion, Woods. I've missed you…

— Miranda Kenneally

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

— Jon Gordon

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

— Robert Rauschenberg

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

— Greg Lynn

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It's important for us as a family to go and sit in the woods sometimes.

— Stella McCartney

No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.

— Junior Seau

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in…

— Jon Gordon

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson