Woodcock Quotes

#1. Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

Ron Atkinson

#2. I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan

#3. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.

William Shakespeare

#4. A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

Lucius Beebe

#5. No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

Aldo Leopold

#6. I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

George Woodcock

#7. You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

George Woodcock

#8. I'm accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows

Peter Woodcock

#9. I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

Leonard Woodcock

#10. Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

George Woodcock

#11. Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

Leonard Woodcock

#12. Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

George Woodcock

#13. At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.

Leonard Woodcock

#14. I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

George Woodcock

#15. I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

George Woodcock

#16. Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

Leonard Woodcock

#17. We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

Leonard Woodcock

#18. It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

#19. I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

George Woodcock

#20. I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

George Woodcock

#21. ...the pond remembers another
time: when flames were for warmth
and children didn't have to run from their light.

Patrick Woodcock

#22. My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

George Woodcock

#23. I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

George Woodcock

#24. It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

George Woodcock

#25. What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

George Woodcock

#26. I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

George Woodcock

#27. When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

George Woodcock

#28. They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

George Woodcock

#29. And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

Leonard Woodcock

#30. The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

Tommy Woodcock

#31. When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

Leonard Woodcock

#32. I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

George Woodcock

#33. My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

George Woodcock