Woods famous quotes

With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.
-- Abbi Glines

#Heart #Arms #Woods

Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods
-- Abbi Glines

#Morning #Want #Woods

Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods
-- Abbi Glines

#Ideas #Littles #Woods

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
-- Abu Hurairah

#Fire #Deeds #Woods

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Cities #Guy #Woods

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Meditation #Mind #Woods

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Mountain #Minorities #Woods

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Woods #Lord #Leaving Me

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Track #Woods #Certain

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Track #Woods #Behinds

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Water #Woods #Hawkers

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
-- Alfred Austin

#Life #Woods #Cry

I read like the flame reads the wood.
-- Alfred Doblin

#Flames #Woods

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Fall #Decay #Woods

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
-- Amy Tan

#Rotten #World #Woods

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Black #Berries #Woods

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
-- Anne Ursu

#Lying #Woods

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.
-- Annie Dillard

#Block #Past #Woods

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
-- Ansel Adams

#Nature #Woods #Today

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Running #And Love #Woods

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
-- Baroness Orczy

#Betrayed #Woods #Guillotine

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Woods #Fields #Scripture

There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.
-- Bruce Littlefield

#Dream #Woods #Week

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

#Cutting #Woods #Way

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Discovery #Woods #Violet

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Clouds #Bird #Woods

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt

#Woods #Way #Remember

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
-- Carol Rifka Brunt

#Machines #Woods #Chance

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
-- Charles Churchill

#Woods #Flood #Command

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
-- Charles Frazier

#Book #Years #Woods

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.
-- Charles Krauthammer

#Fire #Office #Woods

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Interesting #Important #Woods

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!
-- Charles Lamb

#Holiday #Dry #Woods

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown...
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Thinking #Woods #Matter

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
-- Cheryl Strayed

#Woods #Way #Wilderness

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez

#Golf #Bags #Woods

My handicap? Woods and irons.
-- Chris Codiroli

#Golf #Iron #Woods

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy
-- Chris Cole

#People #Pieces #Woods

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
-- Chris Evans

#Dance #Woods #Saws

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
-- Chris Martin

#Years #Ears #Woods

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Woods

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.
-- Clinton Scollard

#Giving #Woods #Mood

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
-- Colette Inez

#Tree #Looks #Woods

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Nature #World #Woods

The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.
-- Dakotsu Iida

#Nature #Morning #Woods

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.
-- Dan Kiley

#Garden #Woods #Should

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
-- Dana Delany

#Together #Woods #Rooms

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.
-- Daniel Boone

#Confused #Three #Woods

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
-- Daniel Clowes

#Fans #Woods #Pulp

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Woods #Orlando #Really Cool

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Japan #Woods #Mistaken

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.
-- Darren Criss

#Nymphs #Woods

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Sound #Woods #Sometimes

Music’s a wood you walk through.
-- David Mitchell

#Woods #Walks

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
-- Dixie Lee Ray

#Garden #Woods #Neglected

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Hair #Blood #Woods

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records
-- Duncan Sheik

#Doe #Records #Woods

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
-- Edmund Spenser

#Singing #Answers #Woods

Time can make soft that iron wood.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Time #Iron #Woods

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Woods #Path #Lost

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
-- Ellsworth Kelly

#Sculpture #Woods #Painting

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.
-- Emily Blunt

#Stories #Woods #Fairytale

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.
-- Emily Carr

#God #Nature #Woods

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
-- Emily Carr

#Silence #Might #Woods

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
-- Ernest Gaines

#Pieces #Earth #Woods

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood,  plaster or clay.
-- Eva Zeisel

#Hands #Clay #Woods

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
-- Fran Kranz

#Mean #Cabins #Woods

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
-- Franz Kafka

#Views #Woods #Boring

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Reality #Literature #Woods

We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.
-- Gary Kovacs

#Leaving #Woods #Information

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
-- Georg Brandes

#Summer #Picnics #Woods

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
-- Georg Kieninger

#Chess #Woods #Shifting

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
-- Georg Trakl

#Spring #Silence #Woods

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
-- George Ade

#Fire #Woods #Stakes

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
-- George Eliot

#Inspirational #Flower #Woods

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
-- George Nakashima

#Skills #Woods #Boards

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
-- Georges Simenon

#Sculpture #Pieces #Woods

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers,
-- Gloria Allred

#Media #Woods #Faults

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Real #Artist #Woods

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
-- Gloria Whelan

#Team #Bird #Woods

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
-- Gordon MacQuarrie

#Men #Trout #Woods

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
-- Greg Lynn

#Looks #Woods #Construction

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
-- Gustav Klimt

#Weather #Woods #Forests

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
-- Gustav Stickley

#Wall #Woods #Quiet

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Kings #Woods #Blame

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow

#Garden #Luxury #Woods

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
-- Hal Borland

#Orange #Rose #Woods

You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'
-- Hank Haney

#Guy #Woods #Months

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
-- Hank Haney

#Friendship #Littles #Woods

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
-- Hank Haney

#Defense #Woods #Easy

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
-- Harrison Ford

#Cutting #Woods #Faster

The woods are full of long drivers.
-- Harvey Penick

#Golf #Long #Woods

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
-- Helmut Jahn

#Woods #Recycling #Natural

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Woods

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Spring #Opportunity #Woods

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Nature #Long #Woods

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Men #Swamps #Woods

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Tree #Woods #Faces

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Woods #Spirit #Miles

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Tree #Woods #Walk In The Woods