Best Wooden Sayings
187 Wooden quotes by 167 unique authors
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It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also…
— Stephen King
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I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint,…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
— Dan Chaon
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Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the…
— Ivan Lendl
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Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
— Theophile Gautier
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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those…
— Claude Vorilhon
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
— Janet Fitch
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I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber…
— Sharon Creech
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Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
— Neil Young
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Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.
— Elvis Presley
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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
— Emile Zola
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The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness…
— Emily Carr
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Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you…
— Skip Prosser
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Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.
— Tom Waits
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears…
— Anjelica Huston
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with…
— Daniel Alarcon
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There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
— Rick Reilly
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
— Mason Cooley
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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
— Roald Dahl
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