Yard Quotes
366 quotes by 313 authors
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As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock…
— Libba Bray
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and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive…
— Annie Proulx
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As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped…
— Janet Evanovich
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted.…
— Lauren DeStefano
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a…
— John Green
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It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top…
— Tove Jansson
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Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
— Robert Benchley
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When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke…
— George R. R. Martin
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On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees…
— Justin Halpern
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When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town.…
— Simone Elkeles
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same…
— Khaled Hosseini
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After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope.…
— Alex Garland
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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall,…
— Richard Brautigan
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Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the…
— George R. R. Martin
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There is something very shocking about seeing him standing dark and still on our doorstep. I lean the door a ways. The night's getting chilly.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A.…
— Gena Showalter
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Luis is right there.†I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard…
— Simone Elkeles
Who Wrote These Yard Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 366 Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: