Woods Quotes - Page 12

• The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

  Carl Andre

  Cutting, Way

  Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”

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• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Song, Guy, Dozen

  "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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• Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent.

  Pentti Linkola

  Rain, Two, Differences

  "The Forest Covering Must Be Restored In Finland". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1995.

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• I’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

  Marisa Miller

  Volleyball, Football, Girly

  "13 Questions With Marisa Miller". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. February 13, 2007.

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• When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Journal of Discourses 7:100, January 10, 1858.

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• You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

  John Amaechi

  Cutting, Axes, World

  Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

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• I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?

  Victoria Laurie

  Girl, Believe, Writing

  "Chit Chatting with Author Victoria Laurie". Interview with Jill Sheets, www.relatemag.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Waiting, Soul

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• For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.

  Jim Moore

  Block, Writing, Years

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• ...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.

  Stephen King

  Children, Real, Stupid

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• Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Track, Behinds, Beaten

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• Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Differences, Balls

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• What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

  John Waters

  Pride, Important, Needs

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• In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

  Kurt Rambis

  Funny, Nba, Wanted

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• Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Eight, Feet

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• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

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• I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

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• I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

  Adrien Brody

  Military, Real, Exercise

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• You have Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan... and Mario Lemieux. He's the best in hockey, in my opinion.

  Kordell Stewart

  Hockey, Nhl, Jordan

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• Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Buddhism, Middle

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• Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

  Chapman Cohen

  Running, Illustration, Two

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• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  Pat Burns

  Believe, Hockey, Player

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• The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.

  Tony Lema

  Running, Golf, Men

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