Yards Quotes - Page 7

I am falser than vows made in wine.

Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

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.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.