Yards Quotes

• He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Balls, Jewelry

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• I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

  Lettie Cowman

  Party, Feet, House

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• It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, House, Tragedy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Dance, Football

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• The word good has many meanings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Grand Mother

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• Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Play, Mind

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

  Jesse Owens

  Hockey, Winning, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

  George Best

  Thankful, Past, Player

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Men, Good Man

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• The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

  John Madden

  Balls, Lines, Way

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• Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

  Janet Macunovich

  Design, Window, Outside Looking In

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• I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

  Tom Hanks

  Fun, Play, Scotland

  Interview with Сhristina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• 'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Next Day, Wife, Bully

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• I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

  Jennifer Garner

  Marry Me, Someday, Rings

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• My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Air, My Family

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• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  Iggy Pop

  Garden, Use, Toilets

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• 'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

  Matthew Perry

  Dark, Ideas, Nine

  Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. August 22, 2002.

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• Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

  A. J. Liebling

  Sweet, New York, Texas

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.550, Macmillan

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• Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Way, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

  James Stockdale

  Air, Railroads, Bombs

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• I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

  Phyllis Diller

  Buried, Housework

  "Phyllis Diller, zany humorist and comedy trailblazer, dies aged 95". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

  Dennis Quaid

  Golf, Needs, Balls

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• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  Zadie Smith

  Beautiful, Clever, Self

  "White knuckle ride". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.

  Evan Davis

  Years, Space, Challenges

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