yard Quotes and Quotations
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yard Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. Joe Bob Briggs | top
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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. Joseph Brodsky | top
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A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller. Ray Brown | top
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day. Mangosuthu Buthelezi | top
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I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me. Brandi Chastain | top
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. Alexander Cockburn | top
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. E. Joseph Cossman | top
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I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards. Trent Dilfer | top
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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. Dave Eggers | top
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I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. Helen Hunt | top
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We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard. Michael Irvin | top
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? John Masefield | top
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There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer. Wentworth Miller | top
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. Earl Nightingale | top
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. Ross Perot | top
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I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. Dennis Quaid | top
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. Joseph Ratzinger | top
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But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing. Cliff Richard | top
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. Manfred von Richthofen | top
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Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble. Pete Sampras | top
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Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow! Rod Steiger | top
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. Bram Stoker | top
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I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows. Paul Taylor | top
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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 Church. Robert Anton Wilson | top
