I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind’s eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men’s wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one...
Henry David Thoreau
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference
Robert Frost
If you want to build a ship, don`t drum up people together to collect wood and don`t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
[on his friendship with Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood, and Orlando Bloom:] "We all look after each other and support each other. Billy and I went down to Mexico to see Orlando Bloom when he was working on Troy (2004), we went to see Billy in a play, and I went ...
Dominic Monaghan
On the loss of her mother, Natalie Wood: "Her death was probably the most defining part of me. I`ve spent the rest of my life dealing with it. Her death changed me forever."
Natasha Wagner
[about a game called "Tig" made up as a prank on Elijah Wood early in the shooting of "The Lord of the Rings":] "So we -- the three of us [Billy Boyd, Monaghan, and Sean Astin] -- were constantly getting it right. And every time Elijah tried a new way of ...
Dominic Monaghan
[on cult director Edward D. Wood Jr.] "Nobody had his style. That`s something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn`t understand but are important to you. Things that kind of ...
Tim Burton
I always trusted him. If there was a way that I had seen something and he had seen it differently, I would ... trust his vision. We were in brilliant hands. -- Elijah Wood on filming "Lord of the Rings," December 14, 2003
Peter Jackson
[The Pillow Book] The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat ...
Peter Greenaway
(On his role in Ed Wood (1994)) "I never was happy with the job I did in Ed Wood (1994). Even though Tim (Burton) was, I wasn`t. Because it`s not what I wanted, it`s not what I wanted. First of all, the company, for whatever reason, not Tim, but the compa...
Vincent D`Onofrio
(On his role in Ed Wood (1994)) "I never was happy with the job I did in Ed Wood (1994). Even though Tim (Burton) was, I wasn`t. Because it`s not what I wanted, it`s not what I wanted. First of all, the company, for whatever reason, not Tim, but the compa...
Vincent D`Onofrio
[on Natalie Wood] The quality I remember about her was a kind of sweetness. When her persona fitted the role you couldn`t do better. She was it.
Elia Kazan
When I think about the way the computer has taken over and eliminated a certain experience of life, that makes me sad. When we were animating fire some staff said they had never seen wood burning. I said, "Go watch!" It has disappeared from their daily li...
Hayao Miyazaki
He`s too young and stupid to understand what he just did. He`s just a baby. He`s only 20, for crying out loud. -- on Cubs teammate Kerry Wood`s 20 strikeout game 5 May 1998.
Mark Grace
I was a bad kid for a while. I`d break curfew, smoke bud, drink booze, all the usual stuff. My parents sent me to an all-boys boarding school when I was 12 -- a school designed to even out uneven boys -- and I was constantly caught smoking. You had to cho...
Will Arnett
I`ll never forget that reading; it was an amazing experience. You come into the room and look over and see this amazing genius sitting there, this legend. It was all very exciting, but to this day, I still don`t know what the movie is about. That`s just h...
Tiffani Thiessen
For over half the years of my life, I have had a great passion for two pursuits; to craft and build things made of wood and to arrange and perform different styles of music. Both have provided me with great joy and fulfillment and I am grateful to God for...
Karen Carpenter
On Peter Pan (2003) co-star Rachel Hurd-Wood: "She was great. I thought she was going to be one of those girlie-girls, you know. She turned out to be different and we were boyfriend and girlfriend".
Jeremy Sumpter
About his grief on wife`s Natalie Wood`s death (1988). "When Natalie (Natalie Wood) died, I was embittered. I still get angry about it and I wonder why it had to happen. I have all those feelings of grief and anger that people who`ve lost someone they lov...
Robert Wagner
About his grief on wife`s Natalie Wood`s death (1988). "When Natalie (Natalie Wood) died, I was embittered. I still get angry about it and I wonder why it had to happen. I have all those feelings of grief and anger that people who`ve lost someone they lov...
Robert Wagner
At about the same age as I was interested in petrified wood, I was just fascinated with this dumb idea that we only used 10 percent of our brains. I was always thinking, Man, if I could only use 20...
Owen Wilson
[On his attitude towards Natalie Wood on the set of West Side Story (1961) and at a later date]: "I think there was a residue of animosity toward Natalie because of that test for Rebel [Without a Cause], and it contributed to our situation. But a few year...
Richard Beymer
[on hearing that Elijah Wood told a reporter that Monaghan, Wood, and Billy Boyd were considering sharing a home in New Zealand:] "He has all these grand plans. We did look at property in New Zealand. What we`re going to do first, correct me if I`m wrong,...
Dominic Monaghan
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
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