During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood. — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining though the woods These February days;… — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable. — Laozi Copy Share Image
He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image