Yards Quotes - Page 22

• I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

  Dov Davidoff

  Children, Reaching, Yard Work

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• When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

  Amanda Peet

  Roles, Nine, Spots

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• You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Block, Redneck, Car

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• I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Garden, Cities, Office

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

  Alec Baldwin

  Football, Mean, Men

  "Alec Baldwin: the Dark Knight" by Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, Light, People

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• If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Happiness, Being Happy, Flower

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• The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.74, Xist Publishing

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• I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt yard. Never in my life should I have been a success. So that's what I love about this country [USA], is you get out there and you have the opportunity and you work hard at it, and you can be a success.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dream, Country, Hard Work

  "Comedian Jeff Foxworthy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Literature, Care

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• Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  Albert Camus

  Dirty, Cities, Paris

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• You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.

  Arthur Kroker

  Real, Mean, Lakes

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• When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Hills, Parliament, Members

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• In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

  Donald Hall

  Basketball, Football, Running

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• All you've got is the word of a fool dog. It's been my experience that a bloodhound is the foolishest dog that is. I don't remember of anybody ever keeping a bloodhound for a yard dog. They're such dad blasted fools.

  Laurence Stallings

  Dog, Dad, Fool

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• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If an alien visitor were to hover a few hundred yards above the planet, it could be forgiven for thinking that cars were the dominant life form, and that human beings were a kind of ambulatory fuel cell: injected when the car wished to move off, and ejected when they were spent.

  Heathcote Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Cells

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• It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kings, Long, Office

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• I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

  Albert Belle

  Baltimore, Compliment, Booing

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• Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Letting Go, Grandmother, Sky

  "Lenny Kravitz: The ‘Precious’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Some yards is better than none yards?

  John Madden

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• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  William T. Vollmann

  Hunting, Fishing, Hours

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Distance, Emotional, Skills

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