Yards Quotes - Page 2

• There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

  Brett Weston

  Car

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• This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!

  Tom Waits

  Couple, Rain, Coffee

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• But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

  Betty Smith

  Men, Tree, Trying

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Dog, Doors

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• If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

  L. Frank Baum

  Gratitude, Heart, Home

  "Fictional character: Dorothy". "The Wizard of Oz", www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

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• THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dog, Affection, Cry

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• The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

  Marian Keyes

  Men, High Heels, Sea

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

  Betty Smith

  Brother, Father, Flower

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Cabins, Los Angeles

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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• If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lasts, Damage, Dump

  "Her Deepness" by Wallace White, www.newyorker.com. July 3, 1989.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Jobs, Men

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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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• 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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• There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

  Wentworth Miller

  Cells, Inmates, Kind

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• Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

  Sandra Lee

  Baking Soda, Nine, Salt

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• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

  George Chapman

  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?

  Isaac Slade

  Car, World, Parks

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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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• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  Fred Hoyle

  Blow, Pieces, Boeing

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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