Top 1200 Old Wood Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

I really enjoy sculpting, like wood carving, and do artwork.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.

I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

Am I the only one who has wood over that little vixen?

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

Ronnie Wood's my good mate, I'm godfather to his twins.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

you must not use wood to put out the fire.

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.