Jack Adams
Artist
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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Wentworth Miller
Actor
"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."
Ray Brown
Musician
"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."
Greg Peterson
Athlete
"Let nature be in your yard."
Adam Grant
Organizational Psychologist, Author
"Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon."
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"In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard."
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"Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?"
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"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 will, and of my own free will I wore it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds."
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"I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does."
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"Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard."
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"The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!"
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"Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard."
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"I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are."
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"Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."
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"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"It doesn't matter matter how many yards you ran for last year. You've got to do it again."
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"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard."
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"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."
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"Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart."
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"The word good has many meanings."
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