Yards Quotes
453 Yards quotes by 385 unique authors
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I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.
— Dustin Pedroia
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Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.
— Adam Grant
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I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of…
— John C. Meyer
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If…
— James Lee Burke
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Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of…
— Dave Barry
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I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going…
— George Best
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If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard…
— George Best
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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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Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers…
— Unknown Author
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and…
— James Gleick
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent…
— Jay Smith
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Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch…
— Christian Finnegan
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Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?
— Caroline Paul
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When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.…
— Fred Bear
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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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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a…
— Steven Levitt
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who…
— Donald Miller
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My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch.…
— Eric Hoffer
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My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.
— Fred Funk
Who Wrote These Yards Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 453 Yards Quotes, led by these top contributors: