Teak Quotes

#1. Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture.

Nancy Kress

#2. Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

Alex Salmond

#3. Seriously?" Spartacus looked amazed. "I thought this looked the same to everyone. We're in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It's beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeous patterns in the wood, and beautiful books. There's endless amounts to read and look at.

Kaza Kingsley

#4. The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae, fibulas and femurs.

Richard Flanagan

#5. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.

Nancy Pearl

#6. What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.

Richard Flanagan

#7. She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at

Stephenie Meyer

#9. I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Kate Flannery

#10. A well-told lie is worth a thousand facts

Michael Ondaatje

#11. Getting into God's stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don't give up because the pain is intense right now - get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.

Oswald Chambers

#12. Hen one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

Thomas Paine

#14. My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage.

Asif Kapadia

#15. She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

Giovanna Cau

#16. I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.

Martin Brodeur

#17. I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.

Anne Wojcicki