#wooden

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#been #body #certain #empty #excellent

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#crap #guy #hammer #head #him

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#along #avoid #covered #crosses #fields

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#four #generals #grow #hats #never

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

#board #bought #disappear #first #i

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#giving #i #like #line #others

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#because #cool #delivered #finally #glass

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#based #basis #japanese #japanese architecture #need

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#dry #iron #like #sincere #water