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Woods Quotes

It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

– Dashiell Hammett

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

– Francis Parkman

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

– Mark Zupan

As a modern-day role model, I’d have to go for Tiger Woods. I’m also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.

– Mark Lawrenson

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

– Douglas Brinkley

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

– Georg Brandes

I don’t have contempt for Tiger Woods.

– Dan Jenkins

We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

– Emeril Lagasse

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

– Michael Connelly

They’re each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

– Mark Duplass

Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.

– Dan Jenkins

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she’d built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

– Floyd Skloot

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

– Chad Coleman

Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.

– Daniel Espinosa

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn’t be room for anyone else.

– Dana Delany

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building – faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself – leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

– Martin Filler

I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

– Norman Reedus

I grew up playing in the woods.

– Nick Robinson

I thought ‘Cabin in the Woods’ was really incredible.

– Megan M. Duffy

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

– Floyd Skloot

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

– Michael Winter

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

– Mary Hunter Austin

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

– Matthew Tobin Anderson

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

– Janos Bolyai

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

– Lou Holtz

I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.

– John Grogan

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

– Laura Ingalls Wilder

When you say ‘fear of the unknown’, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

– M. Night Shyamalan

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

– Jennifer McMahon

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