Junkyard Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to…
— Richard Blumenthal
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If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies…
— Tom Waits
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A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What…
— Fred Hoyle
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn…
— Charles de Lint
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History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
— Roger von Oech
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The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out…
— Tom Robbins
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She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
— Stephen King
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They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from…
— Tom Wolfe
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alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against…
— Charles Bukowski
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The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping…
— Charles de Lint
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Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are…
— Robert White
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I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. I don't protect my own ass, I protect the writer's ass…
— Robert Englund
Who Wrote These Junkyard Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Junkyard Quotes as follows: