Quotes About Hardwood

#1. The sound of a boot heel striking her hardwood floor. The darkness coalesced, gained an outline. A tall, broad-shouldered figure dressed in black stepped forward. A deep voice said, "I won't let you go to Worontzoff's house, Charity.

Lisa Marie Rice

#2. My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.

Amy Sedaris

#3. Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

Richard Flanagan

#4. If you were running away from me, down a straight hallway with an oiled hardwood floor, and I had a machine gun and a pointy mustache, I still couldn't hit you with a bowling ball. But what are you doing? You should be running toward love, not away from it.

Jarod Kintz

#5. I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

Rachel Nichols

#6. Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from pastra, the Romanian verb "to preserve.

Mark Kurlansky

#7. I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Jose Andres

#8. The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

George Orwell

#9. It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.

Kimberly Novosel

#11. Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

Emeril Lagasse

#12. When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

Emeril Lagasse

#13. Short of a shotgun, a pool cue is the best barroom weapon ever invented. Short enough to be handy, long enough to be useful, made out of fine hardwood and nicely weighted with lead.

Lee Child

#14. I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Emily Procter

#15. I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.

Steven Wright

#16. From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Sarah Dessen

#17. Can I help you up?"
"No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor."
"Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up.

Charlaine Harris

#18. Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one.
She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.

Molly O'Keefe

#19. At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.

Peter Quinby

#20. And when the music died, life was always a little less bright, waiting for the next turn on the sprung, hardwood floor.

Alana Albertson

#21. I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, obscenity were concerned.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. There is another world, but it is in this one.

W.B.Yeats

#23. Men respect standards- get some!

Steve Harvey

#24. Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

William Hazlitt

#25. To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

Mary Catherwood

#26. We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

Johan Huizinga

#27. I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.

Margo Kaufman

#28. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.

Abbie Hoffman

#29. Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#30. I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

Eva Green

#31. In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

Mary Doria Russell

#32. The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

Joan Thomas