Best 381 quotes in «woods quotes» category

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

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

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

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story.

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.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

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.

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

Boys need wood to chop.

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

[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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

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, is going home

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

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.

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.

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!

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

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

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

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.

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

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