Wooden Quotes

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. Ramakrishna
God You Roof Important All Religions Religions Through True Steps Pole Reach Also Important Thing Climb Bamboo Up Stone Paths Wooden Stairs Realized Rope Thing
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts. Chanakya
God Thoughts Feelings Our Abode Idols His Dwell Wooden
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Joseph Stalin
Water Diplomat Sincere Like Dry Iron Wooden
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. Spike Milligan
Finally String Ruled Ten Ten Years Foot Caesar Piece Years Hand Iron Wooden Then
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. Peter Ustinov
Age Paper Out Some Hats Only Never Generals Wooden Us Grow Swords Four
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating. Spike Milligan
War Game Cheating Feeling Thinking Thirty Markers Say Alive Hoping Someone He Days Come Private Wooden Across Graves Cards Fourteen Number
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. Alice Morse Earle
Sometimes First Year Further Out Bay Log Plymouth More Colonies Foot Over Attic Houses Frequently Built Still Were Replaced Wooden Stories Story Chimney Which Extending Second Two
Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it. Arca
Music You Jewelry Space Old Empty Space Become Whatever Give Container Box Empty Very Wooden Where Store Spanish Meaning Pregnant Ceremonial Means
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. Charles Lyell
Water Sometimes Down Worn Projecting Slightly Ancient Above More Shallow Bottom Observed Feet Parts Piles Surface Than Wooden Where Lakes Depth Mud Many Swiss
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887. Christopher Fowler
Personality Few Say Complex Detective Physical Give More Consulting He Conan Conceived Concept Well Fresh Still Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Very Sir Leg Arthur Wooden Famous Holmes Disorders Many Original Why Need
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. Claude Vorilhon
Age Our Those Brought Computers Since Toys Obviously Metal Were Been Brain Brains Up Five Same Quite Six Wooden Children Certainly Who Comparison Whose Playing
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear. David Copperfield
First Trick Would Disappear Bought Quarter Wooden Where Board Little Appear
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly. Desi Arnaz
Difficult Studio Around Smooth Camera Wooden Moving Used Floors
John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor. Don Yaeger
Life Made John Mentor Name Also Wooden Coach
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. Eduardo Galeano
Dreams Best Better Wake Up Nighttime Pele Only Writer Messi Became Wake Up Than Wooden Doomed Wanted Legs Soccer Realized Even Player Night Number
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day. Elvis Mitchell
Christmas Faith Day Christmas Day Party Ambition Live Puppet About Miramax Seems Only Tale Roberto Fairy Fairy Tale Boy Real Version Pinocchio Same Wooden Republican Theaters Republican Party Showing Whose
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? Franz Schubert
Art You Other Bites Out Horn Cheeks French French Horn Call His Brass Blows Mouthpiece Wooden
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Intelligence Find Combined House Courtesy Always Often Wooden Golden Room
No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty. Isabella Bird
Family Sense Religious Table Atmosphere Gives Tibet House Altar Shelf Singular Gods Wooden Poor Novelty
For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic. J. Courtney Sullivan
Birthday Me Unfinished Roof Parents Gave Side Seventh Out Windows Onto Had Opened Attic Empty Revealing Front Six Stoop Wooden Door Staircase Little Plain Rooms Floors Swung Two
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. Janet Fitch
Writing Old Secretary Write Like House Modern Wooden Little Room Old-Fashioned Desk
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau
Love Soul Too Indeed Those Characters Souls Wood Wooden To Love Who Many
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. Joaquin Phoenix
You Light Mark Everything Those Find All Things Boring Wrong Feel Like Supposed Know Make Learn Dull Lines Up Hit Just Wooden Your Growing Growing Up Actor Things
I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities. Jodie Comer
People Losing Become Sense Drama Dramas Humour Born Costume Period Because Always Very Often Just Wooden Just Because Wanted Personalities Sudden Sudden People Start
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger. John Guare
Me Broken Man School Try Garbage Summer Broadway Backstage Out Jobs Plumbing Marshall Dressing Dressing Room Haven New Town Still Doing Yelling Stock Leg Fixing Graduate Graduate School Wooden Room Worked Route Her Herbert Plays
Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience. John P. Kotter
Time Big Pay Our Signal Podium Attention Feel Between Over Lights Audience Making Shield May Behind Wooden Senses Low Us Stand Hard Careful Sleep
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