Woods Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Hurt, Humor

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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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• ...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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• 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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• 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 suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Home, Thinking, Next Week

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dark, Thinking, Magic Realism

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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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• I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Cabins, Calling, Radio

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• Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.103

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• My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

  Edith Sitwell

  Cat, Heaven, Firsts

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• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Tattoo, War, Giving

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

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• The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

  James F. Cooper

  Sunshine, Past, Roots

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• I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

  Anne Truitt

  Men, Steel, Sculpture

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The ash her purple drops forgivingly
  And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
  The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
  Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
  All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
  Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Rain, Sunset

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.70, tredition

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Longing, Silent

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• Greene wood makes a hott fire.

  George Herbert

  Fire

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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• To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

  John Milton

  Change, Morrow, Pastures

  "Lycidas" l. 192 (1638)

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• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

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