Woodpeckers Quotes

• A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

  Dakotsu Iida

  Nature, Clouds, Echoes

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• Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tree, Shadow, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

  Louis Sachar

  Lonely, Sky, Tree

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.39, Yearling

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• And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

  Seth

  Real, Tree, Focus

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• As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest
  From the root to the top of the tree,
  Then flies to another tree,
  So have I bored into life to find what lay therein,
  And now it is time to die,
  And I will fly to another tree.

  Sidney Lanier

  Death, Roots, Bored

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• Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Dull, Speed

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• Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Song, Laughter

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• All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

  Leo Kottke

  Sound, Jazz, Woody

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• The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

  Vance Havner

  Temples

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• If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

  Clifford Stoll

  Civilization, House, Way

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• More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Ivory, Bird, Tolerance

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• there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

  Tom Robbins

  Smart, Believe, Two

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.77, Bantam

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

  Seth Green

  Sunshine, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

  Bob Hope

  Witty, Sex, Father

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• Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Two, Long

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• I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

  Si Robertson

  Feet, Pie, Pigs

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• red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

  Tom Robbins

  Hair, Lust, Sugar

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.53, Bantam

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• Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ivory, Cooking, Encounters

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

  Charles Alvin Beckwith

  Men, Boss, President

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• The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

  William O. Douglas

  Animal, Lemmings, Bears

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Sunshine, Two

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• Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Boys, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

  Tom Robbins

  Earth, Columbus, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Character, Moon, Insanity

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