If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.
The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.
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.
. . . 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.
My life, between 22 yards for 24 years. . . It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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.
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.
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.
He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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.
Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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.