Quotes and Sayings about Oak
"I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere."
- Jeff Ament
"Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice."
- Georges Bizet
(Related: Religion, Ambition, Exploitation, Injustice, Vice)
"Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Business, Success, Americans, Interest, Land, Oak)
"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
- Robert Byrd
(Related: Legal, Law, Value)
"My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in."
- Vanessa Carlton
(Related: Mom, Time, Play, Theory, Years)
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Oak, Silence)
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Energy, Evening, Sun, World)
"My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Care, First, Man)
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Man, Sense)
"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."
- Margaret Cho
(Related: Class)
"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
- Leonard Cohen
(Related: Rain, Skin, Waiting)
"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
- William Congreve
(Related: Music, Oak)
"Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Environment)
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Garden, Listening, Nothing, Thinking, Weather)
"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use."
- Nicholas Culpeper
(Related: May, Present, Spring, Trees)
"While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea."
- Allan Cunningham
(Related: Oak, Sea)
"As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Injustice, Judgment, Malice)
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Society, Grief, Man, Right)
"You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: People, Culture, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Right, Want)
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: War, Act, Conviction, Killing, Murder, Nothing)
"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"
- John Ensign
(Related: Chicago)
"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."
- Janet Flanner
(Related: Act)
"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: School)
"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Humility, Pride)
"Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Beauty, Facts, First, Will)
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Nonviolence)
"I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher."
- Aulus Gellius
"Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich."
- Paul Getty
"The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree."
- Bob Goodlatte
(Related: America, Oak)
"The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Music, Hearing, Jazz, Public)
"I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Magic)
"Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Love, Day, Driving, Growing up, Influence, Moon, Nothing, Respect)
"I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform."
- Rickey Henderson
"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."
- George Herbert
(Related: Oak, Storms)
"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
- Ken Hill
(Related: Flowers, Will)
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice."
- Kurt Huber
(Related: Cowardice, Justice, Law)
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Love, Soul, Man, Old, Poor, Stars, Water)
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
- David Icke
(Related: Oak, Today, Yesterday)
"You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Work, Debate, Vote)
"We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean."
- David Jones
(Related: People, Oak, Ocean, State, Trees)
"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."
- Irving R. Kaufman
(Related: Society, Trust, Court, Public, Public trust)
"For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on."
- Craig Kelly
(Related: Media)
"Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them."
- Craig Kelly
"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."
- Stefano Langone
(Related: Words)
"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Beauty, Genius, Growth, Spring, Years)
"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
- Michael Lewis
(Related: Baseball)
"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Love)
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Oak)
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."
- James Madison
(Related: Purpose, Church, Blood, Europe, Separation, State)
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Life, Difficulties, Pressure)
"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Freedom, Liberty)
"But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time."
- John McEnroe
(Related: Time, Information, Mistakes, Now)
"The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say."
- Tim McGraw
(Related: Work, Actor)
"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Men, Thought, Idea, Killing, World)
"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Brooks, Day, Hearing, Heaven, Shadow, Summer)
"And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction."
- John Motson
(Related: Change, Direction, Oak)
"For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer."
- Paul Oakenfold
"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Love, Integrity, Nothing, Self)
"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Change, Men, Women, Man, Will)
"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Work, Possibility, Housework, Self)
"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Duty, Nothing)
"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Fitness, Society, Career, Woman)
"Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals."
- Ann Oakley
(Related: Mother, Development, Being, Children, Dedication, Housewife, Interest, May)
"We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland."
- Jim Otto
(Related: Fans)
"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Love, Hair, May, Security)
"Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain."
- Hugh Prather
(Related: Pain, World)
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
- William Proxmire
(Related: Power, National security)
"I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet."
- Pee Wee Reese
(Related: Games, Hell, School, Spring, Training)
"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."
- Will Rogers
(Related: states)
"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Business, Death, Creation, Tax, Investment, Job, Want, Will)
"I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?"
- Eric San
"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Character, Light, Mind, Oak, Spirits)
"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Family, Home, Money, Boys, Police)
"A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Power, Interest, Ivy, Man, Merit, Oak, Will)
"The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God."
- Charles Stanley
(Related: God, Language, Religious, World)
"Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Nothing)
"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."
- Tertullian
(Related: Nature, Fear, Evil, Shame)
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
- Voltaire
(Related: Father, Man, Oak, Shadow)
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Fear, Courage)
"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."
- E. B. White
(Related: Effect, Skin, Weather)
"So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Related: Oak, Play, Trees, Windows)
"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
- Pete Wilson
(Related: First, Freedom, Rights, Information, Press, Public, Speech)
"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks."
- Jeanette Winterson
"But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him."
- Charles Wolfe
(Related: Rest)
"In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Future)
"In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Ideas, Habit, Memory, Past, Song, Years)
"We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Work)
"Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Quality, Trying, Will)
"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Beginning, Present)
"'m really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Character, Survival, Behavior, Guilt, Order)
"It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Music, Validity)
"It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Anticipation, Song, Writing)
"I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Film, Months, Now, Worth)
"A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Being, Emotion, Space, Universe, Voice, World)
"I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Man, Tribute, Woman)
"I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Music, Actors, Mercy)
"Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Circumstances, Songs, Variety)
"Control success before it controls you."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Success, Control)
"But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: Music, Old, Service, Years)
"At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'"
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: End, Film, Living, May)
"It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century."
- Dwight Yoakam
(Related: People, Film, Metaphor, Old)
"Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos."
- Chuck Zito
(Related: Thought, Famous, First, Meeting)