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Quotes About Wooden

The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk.
~ Jonathan Lethem
the base of the hill he brought the vehicle to a crawl, then carefully turned onto a two-track and threaded his way through two fieldstone columns, an old wooden gate angling away from one
~ Aaron Stander
You can barely make out the heavy wooden block of the contortion seat. I run my hands along it's contours, the wood grain smooth and polished from human flesh.
~ Adam Johnson
My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!
~ Rachael Ray
Annabelle is pretending to play with her collection of tiny wooden dolls, but whenever Mum isn't looking, she throws one of them into the fire. I worry about that child. Father
~ Wendy Mass
As I lay on my side, staring at a pool of white moonlight on the wooden floor, a gust of wind blew the curtains out, long and pale as ghosts. As though an invisible hand were leafing through them, the
~ Donna Tartt
She was obviously wearing her best clothes and had the self-conscious, wooden smile on her face that so often disfigures the expression in posed photography, and makes a snapshot preferable.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
~ John Wooden
My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!
~ Rachael Ray
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
one spoonful hopeone handful wooden fireone feet soilone glass of waterone man high sky one last breath in smile
~ litymunshi
She was as square and solid and unlovely as a wooden packing crate. Her high complexioned moon shaped face bloomed with the high blood pressure she suffered from and her hair was dyed a hard bright orange that nature would have been hard put to replicate.
~ William Gay
Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
~ Neil Young
I gave him a pleasant smile, which said, If I could see your intestines very slowly embracing a large wooden drum rotated by means of a small iron crank turned gently and softly by myself, I should be extraordinarily happy
~ E.E. Cummings
The secret to delicious scrambled eggs was to cook them in a saucepan with bubbling butter and stir them constantly with a wooden spoon. Keep the heat medium-low. Resist the temptation to turn up the gas and cook the damn thing in two seconds. Only patience would allow the eggs to come together soft and fluffy and very, very light
~ Kate Jacobs
Or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?
~ William Shakespeare
Panturle was a huge man. He looked like a piece of wood walking along.
~ Jean Giono
Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
~ Roald Dahl
The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.
~ L. Frank Baum
The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. "What is it?" she whispered. "It's a box," he whispered back. "What kind of box?" "A wooden one." She gave him a look.
~ Derek Landy
into the path of a motored vehicle on the same day Janice seems to have finished her account. Supposedly, a wooden foot was found near the scene, but the body was too badly mangled to be identifiable.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. Which one? I'm staring up at all the differents. Can't help you there, I'm afraid. In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.
~ Emma Donoghue
half-timbered
~ Enid Blyton
Second, I will venture to Café Treplev, which is a hidden, wooden, book-lined restaurant that looks more like someone's personal library I would like to one day have in my imaginary mansion on the cliff with Gael. Oh, you don't have an imaginary mansion on the cliff? Fine. You can come over to mine. But don't steal the soaps.
~ Andrea Portes