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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Albert Einstein

German-born theoretical physicist (1879-1955)

I really don’t think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Liev Schreiber

American actor

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

Jim Frey

American baseball manager (1931-2020)

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Franz Kafka

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

Brigham Young

American religious leader (1801-1877)

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I’m a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there’d be more subtlety.

John McEnroe

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.

Les Paul

American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915-2009)

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

Walter Johnson

American baseball player (1887-1946)

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Thomas Bulfinch

American writer and mythologist (1796-1867)

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