Yard Sale Quotes

• Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Perfect, Important

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

  Ben Mezrich

  Book, Wife, Office

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

  Mardy Grothe

  Art, Memorable, People

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• I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

  Mac Barnett

  Book, Kids, Men

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

  Will Ferrell

  Yards, Stuff, Knows

  "Interview with Actor Will Farrell". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. May 12, 2011.

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• As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.

  Janet Evanovich

  Boys, Breathing, Guy

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• Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.

  Christian Finnegan

  Couple, Fun, Feet

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Trying, Yards

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