Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or style:
“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.
“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)