Carved Wooden Sayings

#1. They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

Laurence J. Peter

#2. His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand.

Peter Carey

#3. My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.

Mark Frauenfelder

#4. Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

Gerald Jampolsky

#5. The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Gloria Steinem

#6. It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

Charles Dickens

#7. Open, fact-based sex education is among the biggest threats to religion. Knowing the facts about sex reveals the myths that religions preach.

Darrel Ray

#8. She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be.

Susanna Kearsley

#9. Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Dalai Lama

#10. Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

Katherine McIntyre

#11. My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.

Deborah Moggach

#12. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

Jimmy Carter

#13. I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

Calista Flockhart