I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp…

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

— Dashiell Hammett

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

— George H. W. Bush

Someone with a dog asked how far it was from A to B. I told him 15 lamp posts.

— Robert D Dangoor

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

— Jeffrey Robinson

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

— Romano Prodi

“If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all…

— Don Hutchison

“It starts with a craving to fill the long evening downslant. There will be whole wide days of watching winter drag her skirts cross…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.”

— Barbara Bothwell

“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for…

— Jonathan Auxier

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of…

— Maya Angelou

Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard…

— Gene Spafford