Pine Quotes

#1. Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Chris Pine

#2. I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

Chris Pine

#3. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Chris Pine

#5. The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

B. Joseph Pine II

#6. The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

Christopher Atkins

#7. In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

Chris Pine

#8. I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.

Chris Pine

#9. There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

Chris Pine

#11. black-cloaked monsters chased after me. I shoved helplessly through the brittle pine trees, leafless branches clawing at my flesh. Snow flooded my sneakers, soaking higher and higher on my jeans with every step I took.

Jessica Sorensen

#12. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Shampa Sharma

#13. Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

Chris Pine

#14. Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Chris Pine

#15. The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

Edith Pattou

#17. I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.

Chris Pine

#18. Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#19. I had a nose tickle.

Chris Pine

#20. One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

Wallace Stevens

#21. No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

Frida Kahlo

#22. The SUV carves its way through dark pine forests. Morning sun passes through the pleached trees, dappling the windows of the vehicle.

Chuck Wendig

#23. The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.

Anthony Doerr

#24. We are made up of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.

Carlo Rovelli

#25. But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again," he continued, "it is a torture of an unbearable degree. It is the worst pain possible. Enough to drive you away from yourself ...

Kelly Creagh

#26. Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Chris Pine

#27. I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Chris Pine

#28. The Ozmists around him went iridescent emerald, like light striking a thousand whirring beetles in flight, gold and emerald, emerald and gold, the colors of Lurlinemas, the colors of pine polen in champagne sunlight.

Gregory Maguire

#29. Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard
To find Nancy Drew a clue.
But when he got there,
Each cupboard was bare
And so there was no clue for Drew.

Carolyn Keene

#30. Thank the gods Ubie'd had her detailed, because blood simmering under the New Mexico sun was never a good scent choice for cars. I preferred pine. Or

Darynda Jones

#31. Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

Chris Pine

#32. Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon

#33. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

George Crabbe

#34. He grinned. "You're easy, I like that."
I didn't really have a response. I guess I was easy.

Katherine Pine

#35. Glittering tinsel,
lights, glass balls, and candy canes
dangle from pine trees.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

Homaro Cantu

#37. No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Thomas Merton

#38. She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant

Peter Carey

#39. I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.

Cassandra Clare

#40. I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Chris Pine

#41. There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Hector Hugh Munro

#42. ROBOT DRIVE TO PINE OMPHALOS QUINTAIN BULL'S EYE NITTY-GRITTY NUANCE MOOT HEGEMONY.

Various

#43. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Ben Gibbard

#44. The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born.

Libba Bray

#45. There's certainly the ego-based me that is very competitive.

Chris Pine

#46. I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Chris Pine

#47. My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Ron Reagan

#48. I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

Chris Pine

#49. I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Don Kardong

#50. 'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

Tina Brown

#51. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

Chris Pine

#52. I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Karen Marie Moning

#53. I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

Chris Pine

#54. The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.

Jared Farmer

#55. God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds!
And they too have a voice, you piles of snow,
And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#56. When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

Ernst Gottlieb Baron

#57. Know your mind and see your nature.

Red Pine

#58. The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.

Robert Zverina

#59. I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.

Chris Pine

#60. The God of the universe
the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor
loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Francis Chan

#61. In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

Princess Shikishi

#62. From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

Matsuo Basho

#63. I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.

Chris Pine

#64. If you think your desires are selfish or cruel, hate yourself. If you think the world unjust, then hate your god.

Katherine Pine

#65. The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.

Amanda Coplin

#66. Nothing could kill a conversation quite like fighting back tears after you're asked a simple question.

Katherine Pine

#67. I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending ...

Carew Papritz

#68. They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but it was the only one they had. The alternative was to lie down and slowly pine away.

Camilla Lackberg

#69. A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Chris Pine

#70. Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

Steven Tyler

#71. Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#72. I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

Josh Turner

#73. The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Richard Engel

#74. Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I'm speaking to everyone - assume a middle distance and transcend myself - but I'm taking to you and you know it.

Richard Siken

#75. You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Chris Pine

#76. Then you start to see things, Lloydy-my-boy. Things you missed from the gutter. Like how the floor of the Wagon is nothing but straight pine boards, so fresh they're still bleeding sap, and if you took your shoes off you'd be sure to get a splinter.

Stephen King

#77. Anytime you take on a character ... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

Chris Pine

#78. For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

Chris Pine

#79. Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder.

Gabor Mate

#80. I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.

Chris Pine

#81. To mee, who with eternal Famine pine,
Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,
There best, where most with ravin I might meet;
Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems
To stuff this Maw, this vast unhide-bound Corpse.

John Milton

#82. My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.

Chris Pine

#83. The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Martha Gellhorn

#84. Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#85. Which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of lunacy, you spend more energy getting the damn things out than they give you when you eat.

Salman Rushdie

#86. Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

Chris Pine

#87. Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

Rob Brezsny

#88. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

Eden Robinson

#89. We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Felicia Hemans

#90. The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

Chris Pine

#91. To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#92. Recently, I spent eight days in a car with my co-host from Top Gear James May, who has a notoriously flatulent bottom. But because he was living on army rations the interior was always pine fresh and lemon zesty.

Jeremy Clarkson

#93. There is no one better than a good Englishman and no one worse than a bad one. I have observed you. I think you are a good one. Mr Pine, do you know Richard Roper?

John Le Carre

#94. Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

Sloane Crosley

#95. He just stared at me.
"Stop looking at me like that," I begged.
Immediately he changed the angle at which he looked at me.
I wanted to scream at him.

Katherine Pine

#96. I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My dirt, I think. My land.

Rae Carson

#97. Shadows celebrate sunshine
Lift the gloom of those who pine.
Leave a message to emulate
Alter and adapt willingly.

Balroop Singh

#98. They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, "Po-ork?" When nothing materialized, she yelled, "Pork!

Harper Lee

#99. You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.

Josh Lanyon

#100. My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

Chris Pine