I’d like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I’d have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. – Gloria Steinem
Whether it’s a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called ‘Pretty Persuasion.’ She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her. – Elisabeth Harnois
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child. – Carlo Collodi
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. – David A. Bednar
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. – Duncan Sheik
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. – George Carlin
I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they’re all really cool. – Daniel Radcliffe
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. – Nagarjuna
We didn’t have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that? – Marc Singer
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. – Jean Cocteau
The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock. – Jo Cox
When I married Paul, we lived in St John’s Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don’t know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation. – Linda McCartney
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. – Jean Froissart
I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes – knock on wood – I have never broken a bone. – Jennifer Carpenter
I really don’t think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. – Liev Schreiber
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star. – Jerry Reed
Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. – Karl Barth
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or – somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. – Kenneth Grahame
Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. – Layne Staley
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? – Judith Viorst
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound. – Les Paul