Yards Quotes

453 Yards quotes by 385 unique authors

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you… — Zadie Smith
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs… — James Stockdale
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. — Henry David Thoreau
When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you. — Lee Trevino
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the… — Eddie Vedder
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats,… — Herschel Walker
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the… — Robert Anton Wilson
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She… — Sue Monk Kidd
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free… — Charles Dickens
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a… — James Wright
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for… — George Saunders
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
And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own… — Anne Rice
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.… — C.S. Lewis
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… — Jack Kerouac
She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it… — Melissa Marr
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it… — Jack Kerouac
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
The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and… — Dave Barry
Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat… — Chris Rose
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that… — George Bernard Shaw
It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back… — Jodi Picoult
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning… — Lisa Genova

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