Top 100 Sherwood Quotes
#1. Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.
Debra Doyle
#3. So, the next film won't necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we're grateful for the films we've made (with Sherwood). The church is an amazing church. We're gonna grow as filmmakers and invest in the next generation of upcoming filmmakers and try to duplicate what we're doing.
Alex Kendrick
#4. The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.
Chris Squire
#5. John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
Douglas Brinkley
#6. I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.
Tom Drury
#7. Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Emeraude Toubia
#8. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
Mark Twain
#9. Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.
Glenn Hoddle
#10. Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson ... Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
Sydney J. Harris
#11. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.
Sherwood Anderson
#12. I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
Billy Sherwood
#14. Sometimes when things seem to be falling apart, they're actually falling together." The older priest kept his face serious for a moment before it cracked into a grin. "I read that on Facebook." Mark
Kate Sherwood
#15. 'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
Sherwood Schwartz
#16. I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
Sherwood Smith
#17. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.
Sherwood Anderson
#19. There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
Sherwood Anderson
#20. Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
Sherwood Anderson
#21. Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.
Sherwood Smith
#23. I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Sherwood Anderson
#24. To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.
Sherwood Anderson
#25. It might be that women who have been
nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught
to have too much respect
Sherwood Anderson
#26. Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
Sherwood Anderson
#27. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood
#28. So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
Billy Sherwood
#29. I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.
Sherwood Schwartz
#30. It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.
Sherwood Smith
#31. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Sherwood Smith
#32. Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
Sherwood Smith
#33. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?
Sherwood Schwartz
#34. I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.
Don Sherwood
#35. We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
Ben Sherwood
#36. Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
Sherwood Anderson
#37. Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
Sherwood Smith
#38. Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture.
Sherwood L. Washburn
#39. We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
Billy Sherwood
#40. I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#41. Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack."
"What does that mean, exactly?"
"Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.
Sherwood Smith
#42. I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
Billy Sherwood
#44. When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.
Sherwood Schwartz
#45. I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson
#46. So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert
#47. It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."
... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad ... at least ... you're desolated.
Sherwood Smith
#48. There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.
Brad Sherwood
#49. What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'
'That's not good, that's triumph,
Sherwood Smith
#51. Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
Dominic Sherwood
#52. I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.
Sherwood Anderson
#54. I want a really diverse range of different people under my belt. That's what I'm hoping to do with my career.
Dominic Sherwood
#55. I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
Sherwood Anderson
#56. The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
Sherwood Anderson
#57. About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
Sherwood Boehlert
#58. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood
#59. To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#61. I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously
Sherwood Smith
#62. Don't write what you know - what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you - and interests you deeply - and your readers will catch fire at your words.
Valerie Sherwood
#63. I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.
Sherwood Anderson
#64. You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces ...
Sherwood Smith
#65. It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.
Sherwood Anderson
#66. Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.
Sherwood Anderson
#67. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
Don Sherwood
#68. More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?
Sherwood Anderson
#69. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget.
Sherwood Anderson
#70. Like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.
Ben Sherwood
#71. I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books. Obviously there are changes, but with the books as a basis, hopefully the fans will like what we have done.
Dominic Sherwood
#72. We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere, even though we have no clear idea of what the biological or meteorological consequences may be.
Frank Sherwood Rowland
#73. Time is the only commodity that is irreplaceable: invest it, share it, spend it...but never waste it.
Tracy Sherwood
#74. I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?
Sherwood Anderson
#75. All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child
something of that sort
gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.
Sherwood Anderson
#76. To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
Sherwood Anderson
#78. I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men ... It blew ideas away.
Sherwood Anderson
#79. I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.
Sherwood Anderson
#80. I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.
Sherwood Anderson
#81. Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
Don Sherwood
#82. And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.
Ben Sherwood
#83. I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.
Sherwood Anderson
#84. Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sherwood Eddy
#85. Let's start by taking a little responsibility, okay? Let's not say "what happened" let's say "what I did". "What happened" sounds like you weren't involved and that's bullshit, Alex.
Kate Sherwood
#86. When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
Sherwood Smith
#87. The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#88. Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?"
"I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow.
Sherwood Smith
#89. Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.
Sherwood Smith
#90. Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Sherwood Boehlert
#91. So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.
Billy Sherwood
#92. Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
Billy Sherwood
#93. Anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation
the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#94. Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker.
Sherwood Anderson
#95. At the best of times I don't have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.
Sherwood Smith
#96. One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
Sherwood Anderson
#97. I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.
Sherwood Anderson
#98. And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.
Billy Sherwood
#99. What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.
Sherwood Smith
#100. As a man who tried to explain in his own way that people have to learn to get along with each other. I did it with comedy because that's what I'm familiar with, and I think it's more acceptable to tell it in comedy form. But that's how I'd like to be remembered.
Sherwood Schwartz
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