Planed Wood Quotes & Sayings

In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year. — Maggie Stiefvater

Life without music is no life at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game's reason that eluded him. The end of every game is a gain or a loss: but of what? What were the real stakes? At checkmate, beneath the foot of the king, knocked aside by the winner's hand, nothingness remains: a black square, or a white one. By disembodying his conquests to reduce them to the essential, Kublai had arrived at the extreme operation: the definitive conquest, of which the empire's multiform treasures were only illusory envelopes; it was reduced to a square of planed wood. — Italo Calvino

If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others? — Lysander Spooner

I still can't believe it ... him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. — Alan Moore

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace. — Arundhati Roy

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself. — Marcel Duchamp

Help me - and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power. He — H.G.Wells

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with ... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would. — John Carpenter

I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say. — Jimmy Smits

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception. — Frederick Lenz

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing; — Friedrich Nietzsche

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities. — Rebecca MacKinnon

People talking about you is far more effective
than talking about yourself. — Seth Godin

With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble. — Brad Furman