Wood Quotes
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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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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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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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, splinters fly.
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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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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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The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
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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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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
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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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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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Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.
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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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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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When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
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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.
