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John Wooden's books are great.
I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.
Use a rubber spatula when you make eggs. Maybe a wooden spoon.
John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.
I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.
I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.
I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece.
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Walk into any Japanese fish market, and you'll see neat rows of sea urchin roe sold in little wooden trays.
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.
The gym in Milton Keynes or wooden backboards at Chester - maybe it didn't feel that glamorous at the time, but it was fun.
I love the cleanness of Kaare Klint and Rud Rasmussen furniture, especially the wooden criss-cross under-bars of their sofas.
It's so much fun to dream in your driveway. I had an old wooden backboard in my driveway. That's where my friends and I hung out.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
I'm a collector of carvings. I love old, wooden, grotesque Gothic pieces, anything that has cherubs on it, satyrs and carved angels.
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either.
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
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.
I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.
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.
Looking back, in comparison, there wasn't that much that you could do with a wooden racket. In my day, the matches were certainly much less demanding physically.
I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
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 never in my wildest dreams thought I would get even one play at Indiana, let alone 25 years later, walk Bruin Walk, walk UCLA where Coach Wooden built his legacy.