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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen… — Jared Diamond
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting… — Charles Dickens
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would… — Tom Hodgkinson
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. — George Lucas
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. — Spike Milligan
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.… — Aimee Mullins
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone… — Ramakrishna
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of… — Tom Robbins
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that… — Franz Schubert
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway… — Amy Sedaris
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. — Joseph Stalin
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and… — Lewis Thomas
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. — Peter Ustinov
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. — Ethel Waters
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy… — Felix Dennis
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to… — Mercedes Lackey
Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.… — Alexandre Dumas
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was… — John le Carre
What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg. — Megan Whalen Turner
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a… — Frank Zappa
Hagrid. You live in a wooden house! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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