Felix Dennis

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

British Publisher

Charles Dickens

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

English Novelist

Joaquin Phoenix

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

American Actor

Suzanne Vega

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

American Musician

Vic Reeves

Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got paint everywhere.

Janet Fitch

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

American Author

Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Japanese Architect

Mavis Staples

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Jean Cocteau

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

French Director

Victoria Pendleton

I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

British Athlete

Describing objects as wooden emphasizes their natural origin and can suggest traditional craftsmanship.

Natural Material

In contexts where being ecological or rustic is valued, wooden can carry a positive connotation.

Positive Connotation

When used to describe a person's behavior or performance, wooden often suggests they lack naturalness or ease.

Negative Nuance

Use wooden to describe something rigid that you think should be more relaxed or fluid.

Improve Precision

Wooden highlights a lack of emotion where some expression was expected.

Emotional Absence

Use wooden as a critical descriptor in creative fields like acting or writing, where dynamism is desired.

Critique Descriptor

Wooden-patterned describes items with the visual appeal of wood, often associated with coziness or nature.

Aesthetic Appeal

Mentioning something as wooden-patterned implies it's not real wood but mimics its appearance.

Imitation Element

 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.

Are Crows the Ultimate...

 a throwing stick is a handmade wooden tool with a sharpened end when thrown sideways it is an effective hunting weapon for small games such as rabbits sidearm just like a martial arts punch is that spinning action of this stick that when it hits it creates all that force

Living Off the Land PIPE...

 huge mix of species, and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines,

Why is biodiversity so...

 and one end over the young woman's heaving bosom. He is delighted by the clarity of the sound. Laennec spends the next three years developing and testing various materials and mechanisms before settling on a hollow wooden tube with detachable plug.

How the stethoscope was...

 The warrior god Set and his wife, the goddess Nephtys, decorated an extravagant hall for the occasion, with a beautiful wooden chest as the centerpiece. They invited all the most important gods, dozens of lesser deities, and foreign monarchs.

The Egyptian myth of the...

 may have helped get around laws prohibiting slaves from playing music. Early Peruvian cajons consisted of a simple box with five thick wooden sides. The sixth side, made of a thinner sheet of wood, would be used as the striking surface,

Rhythm in a box: The...

 "I am a pirate with a wooden leg." The pirate can only walk in iambs, a living reminder of Shakespeare's favorite meter. Iambic pentameter is when he takes ten steps. Our pirate friend can even help us remember how to properly mark it

Why Shakespeare loved...

 to fall in love with the king's prized bull. Under this spell, she asked Daedalus to help her seduce it. With characteristic audacity, he agreed. Daedalus constructed a hollow wooden cow so realistic that it fooled the bull.

The myth of Icarus and...

 So I thought about a notice board. A simple wooden notice board. When I get information on my phone, I'm able to post the information on the notice board. So it's basically like a computer. I use the Internet to help people.

Where's Google going...

 with model replica wooden replica guns and they were having a gun battle over the tops of some cars and he turned to me and he said I tell their parents don't let your kids play with those guns