45 Quotes About Yards

  • Author Wilbur Smith
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    My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

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  • Author Anna Torv
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    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.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.

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  • Author William T. Vollmann
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    Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

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

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  • Author Alan Zemaitis
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    I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

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