Wood Quotes
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There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man
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If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
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You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
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When you chop wood, chips fly.
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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.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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Carving a sculpture in wood is such a sensual pleasure when blow by blow the figure grows more and more from the trunk.
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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
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It might be the long hair and the beard. Tom Wood is like Samson – he gets better with longer hair.
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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
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The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
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When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.
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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
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He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.
