Best 381 quotes in «woods quotes» category

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

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.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Going into the woods, is going home

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

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.

Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

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.

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

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

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

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.

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

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

Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

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.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

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

If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.

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

I get fit taking my bike out in the woods.

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.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.