Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where ELSE can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of WHOLE GENERATIONS is stored.

Commercial FISHING is always so BEHIND the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, THOUGH it ALSO had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

I'd always wanted to do COSTUME DRAMA, but PERIOD dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start LOSING their sense of humour or their PERSONALITIES.

A SINCERE diplomat is LIKE DRY WATER or wooden IRON.

The TRUTH is, I WOULD do anything for ALAN Rudolph. If he asked me to STAND on my HEAD and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

Any middle-aged WOMAN KNOWS that our FEET are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

My idea of a TRADITIONAL holiday - the right way to do it - GOES BACK to the days when gift-giving meant SHARING homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.

I've WORKED with a LOT of wooden actors in my DAY, but Pinocchio is the BEST.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an EMPTY HEART that has taken on a certain wooden QUALITY; an excellent, STRONG woman's BODY and a pitiably starved soul.

I was 7 YEARS OLD and my DAD gave me a wooden tennis RACKET.