Best Wooden Quotes
187 Wooden quotes by 167 unique authors
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
— John Lydon
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We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
— Maria Cantwell
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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God…
— Gunter Grass
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient…
— Charles Lyell
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to…
— Laurence J. Peter
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent…
— Jay Smith
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Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
— Desi Arnaz
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body…
— Mary MacLane
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the…
— William S. Burroughs
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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is…
— Max Beckmann
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I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.
— Mark Rippetoe
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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
— Paul Gauguin
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on…
— John Galsworthy
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The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms…
— Carl De Keyzer
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They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
— Laurence J. Peter
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My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in…
— Rachael Ray
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying…
— Suzanne Vega
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The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility…
— Donald Judd
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A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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