Yards Quotes · Page 3

My main focus is to get positive yards.

— Derrick Henry

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

— Booker T. Washington

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

— Murdo MacLeod

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have…

— Mark Leyner

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

— Bruce Springsteen

It doesn't matter matter how many yards you ran for last year. You've got to do it again.

— Priest Holmes

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

— Lincoln Peirce

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

— Rick Pitino

Hudson Yards is a very hostile space for, uh, documentarians.

— John Wilson

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

— Russell Wilson

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

— Alyson Noel

Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with…

— Arthur J. Deikman

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato…

— Anonymous

Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him,…

— Bill Engvall

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I…

— Todd Helton

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as…

— Curtis Stone

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was…

— Berti Vogts

Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's…

— Christian Finnegan

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen.…

— Gale Sayers

Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the…

— George Saunders

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had…

— Barney Frank

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left…

— Mark Twain

As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that…

— Timothy Pickering

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a…

— James Gleick

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt…

— Jeff Foxworthy

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in…

— Joyce Meyer

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes…

— Stephanie Tourles

“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell…

— Anonymous

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on…

— Anne Lamott

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at…

— Dean Koontz

I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,…

— William Golding

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

— Bobby Jones

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

— Anonymous

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

— John Elway

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

— Ray Wilkins