I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.
I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be.
He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.
When you chop wood, chips fly.
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.
[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.
When men struggle for the single life God has given them. . . even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.