The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

- Bernard DeVoto

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

- Daniel Radcliffe

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

- Daniel Radcliffe

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

- Damien Hirst

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

- Carl Perkins

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

- Carlo Collodi

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

- Christopher Darden

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

- Chris Martin

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

- C. S. Lewis

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

- Bobby Thomson

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

- Albert Einstein

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

- Bryce Harper

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

- Brigham Young

I love beautiful wood.

- Billy Mays

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

- Anthony Edwards

I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.

- Antony Gormley

A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.

- Alex Honnold

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

- Abbas Kiarostami

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

- Annie Dillard

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

- Angus Young