Plywood Quotes

#1. Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Darryl F. Zanuck

#2. The universal logo for a pizzahut is eight slices painted cross a disc of yellow plywood mounted in the mouth of a taxidermic hippopotapus.

Noah Wareness

#3. Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

David Letterman

#5. When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Steve Jobs

#6. You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel

Fern Michaels

#7. At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood. If an civil libertarian had complained about the nativity being on public property, he would have been hunted down like Santa's reindeer during bow season.

Deborah Smith

#8. One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.

Brittany Howard

#9. Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

Lauren Beukes

#11. I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

Andy Serkis

#12. There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.

Ursula Vernon

#13. Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

Scott Meyer

#14. Below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.

Lee Child

#15. It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.

Josh Smith

#16. Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

Artur Davis

#17. Never show fear. Move forward. Don't hesitate; they wont expect it.

Julia Crane

#18. Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#19. I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.

Urijah Faber

#20. Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an ardently burning love?

Francis De Sales

#21. The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#22. Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that.

J.D. Barker

#23. He hesitated, and his smile was a little too sad, "Sometimes, you're careful about the wrong things.

Laken Cane

#24. I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

Dan Fogler

#25. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

#26. I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Mayer

#27. Finding a cat
or having a cat find you
can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

Kinky Friedman

#28. A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Robin Sharma

#29. Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Maria Grazia Swan