Humorous Woodworking Quotes & Sayings

Penitence is more attainable than permission. — Barbara Kingsolver

We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us ... — Philip K. Dick

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered. — Chuck Klosterman

Jump high and hard with intention and heart. — Cheryl Strayed

It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire. — Salman Rushdie

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow. — George H. W. Bush

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. — Noam Chomsky

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed. — Frederick Lenz

This suggests that for our species, too, the cerebellum is critically important.63 — Frans De Waal

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year. — Troy Gentile

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. — Norman Maclean

Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit. — Kara Swisher

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it. — Joan Jett