Yards Quotes - Page 4

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

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 a Goodyear blimp.

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 late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.