Top 330 Wooden Quotes & Sayings

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.

Hagrid. You live in a wooden house!

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

John Wooden's books are great.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

A dedication is a wooden leg.

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

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

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

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.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

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 another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary to be a winner in the Game of Life, which makes him the perfect person to write this book filled with lessons. Coach Wooden has been a mentor to people in every walk of life.

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.

Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.

Use a rubber spatula when you make eggs. Maybe a wooden spoon.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

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I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.

Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece.

I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.