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There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t… — Kabir
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… — Kenneth Grahame
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it… — Kenneth Grahame
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… — Murasaki Shikibu
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. — Charles Dudley Warner
Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on… — Joe Biden
If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood.… — Richard Betts
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like… — Billy Graham
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… — Olivier Messiaen
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the… — Charles Lamb
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood. — Walter Johnson
Rotten wood cannot be carved. — Confucius
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique,… — Georg Baselitz
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but… — Henry Moore
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled… — Alexander Calder
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.… — Helen Garner
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it… — Lady Bird Johnson
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make… — Jack Handey
I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them.… — Joe Strummer
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the… — Rod Carew
I read like the flame reads the wood. — Alfred Doblin
You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting… — Don Felder
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that. — John Tenniel
Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from… — Julian Assange
If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I… — Bob Riley

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