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Every one out of the rack is the same. With wood, it depends on how good the wood is.


Eric Weinrich

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TOM SIZEMORE Dedication is the preparation to success!
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PAT EBERHART The kind with the wood on the sides — that's cool.
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
GEORGE HERBERT It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.
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"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
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JEANETTE CORON Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
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BILL RYAN The new album will come out some time in november - Knock On Wood.
LARS ULRICH Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.
LU DONNELLY A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.
JACK HERBERT The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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DAVID EDDINGS One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.
YIDDISH PROVERB Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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TEKOA MANNING Most all the courts are maple now. The wood is strong enough, and it's got a good color to it.
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ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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BIBLE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
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EMILY GIFFIN Knock on wood.
EDDIE FLOYD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It was pretty good. (The floor) was wood, (the gym) was new and it was loud.
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DANTE ALIGHIERI He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
GEORGE HERBERT The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as w...
JUNIPERO SERRA Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t...
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ELSA PERETTI The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
P...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER We were just trying to locate a fastball away - trying to get ahead. He got good wood on it. He time...
GEOVANY SOTO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
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OGDEN NASH It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Last year was a fluke. I spent this summer in the (Cape Cod) wood bat league which is more of a pitc...
JAKE DUGGER The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, es...
DON ALBRECHT He is shooting to be ready by the start of the (regular) season. We'll see how it goes. He's hopeful...
ARN TELLEM Whatever needs to be done, he gets it done. He's a very consistent fielder and makes routine plays p...
LORENZO BUNDY I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming poo...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE They didn't even have a pitching mound so we had to build one out of wood.
JASON ROSS Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.
TERESA FOLLMER Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE We have not had one incident since we put in the wild lime. Knock on wood.
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RYAN CZARNECKI A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps wi...
AMANDA STURGES After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood....
CARL PERKINS I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Every district is different. It depends on the leadership you're working with.
ALLAN MILBRADT If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire.
AARON COSTIC Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.
IRISH PROVERB You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin -...
PETER ZUMTHOR Anything you can think of that's made out of wood, we've probably built it.
JEFF DOUSHARM Anger in the body is like a termite in the wood.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix ...
GREGG ANDREWS Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep up Christmas ...
UNKNOWN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
GEORGE HERBERT Wood is a very important material.
CLAES THORSON I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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ERIC HOFFER To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
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