#wood

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#down #everyone #get #high #high school

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes. ↗

— Delta Burke

#got #hollywood #i #just #out

The more important point is that Reality is much more 'nuanced' that we may imagine. Operationally co-existent economies make for a much better fit into what we now know about our material universe per quantum physics, et al. This is after all His creation and He is the Rational One. Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#theology #faith

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. ↗

— Edward Burns

#am #big #big fan #comedy #different

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City. ↗

— Steve Burns

#bother #calm #calm down #city #cleaner

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap. ↗

— Billy Bush

#broke #cheap #dirty #entertainment #extra

I think that in Hollywood, it's hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don't need to go out every night to get attention. I'm happy with the amount that I have. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#attention #because #crazy #every #every night

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. ↗

— Lord Byron

#does #green #hill #joy #laugh

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#fail #hollywood #kind #marriages