Cutting Quote by Gene Stratton-Porter

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

— Jean Cocteau

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it…

— Sam Maloof

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

— George Herbert

Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not the most…

— Ilkin Santak

“I consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no,…

— John C. Wright

“Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was…

— Tom Walsh

“I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“His teeth began to chatter. God All-Mighty! he thought, why haven't I realized it all these years? All these years I've gone around with…

— Ray Bradbury

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

— Daniel Defoe