Hundred Yards Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
— Jack Adams
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We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
— Edward Carpenter
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash…
— Jim Carrey
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.
— Winston Churchill
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
— Ray Bradbury
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I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first…
— Bill Engvall
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black…
— C L R James
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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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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…
— A J Liebling
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards…
— Terry Pratchett
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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…
— Marian Keyes
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A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as…
— Stephenie Meyer
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred…
— Laurie R. King
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The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe…
— John Fowles
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It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad…
— Mira Grant
Who Wrote These Hundred Yards Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Hundred Yards Quotes as follows: