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  • Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

    Tree   Woodpeckers   Dull  
  • If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

  • The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

  • Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  • Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

    Tree   Shadow   Littles  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
  • I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam
  • More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

    Ivory   Bird   Tolerance  
  • And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

    Real   Tree   Focus  
  • My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

    Men   Boss   President  
  • there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

    Smart   Believe   Two  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.77, Bantam
  • As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have I bored into life to find what lay therein, And now it is time to die, And I will fly to another tree.

    Death   Roots   Bored  
  • I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

  • All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

  • red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

    Hair   Lust   Sugar  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.53, Bantam
  • My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

    Witty   Sex   Father  
  • A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

    Nature   Clouds   Echoes  
  • There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

  • There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

    Sunshine   Two   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

    Thinking   Two   Romance  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam
  • I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

    Feet   Pie   Pigs  
  • Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

    William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books
  • If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

    Lonely   Sky   Tree  
    Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.39, Yearling
  • Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

    Real   Two   Long  
  • The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

  • Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

    Fun   Adventure   Destiny  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam
  • There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

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