Best 381 quotes in «woods quotes» category

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.

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

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

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

I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.

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

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

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

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

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

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

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

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

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.