Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they… — LaDainian Tomlinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for… — Robert Earl Keen Copy Share Image
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“In a pine tree, A few yards away from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up… — James Wright Copy Share Image
When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image