Yards Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

The word good has many meanings.

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.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

It doesn't matter matter how many yards you ran for last year. You've got to do it again.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

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 on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

Figure out where you are on the field. If you're past 15 or so yards, the ball is going down the field. When you're in great position, you're able to control the receiver.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

I got this grave yard woman.

They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.