#yard

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#between #california #contrast #definite #figures

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#involved #measure #measures #opportunity #risk

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#beloved #bishop #christ #distant #english

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. ↗

— William Petersen

#back #being #bugs #comes #comfortable

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks. ↗

— Emo Philips

#blanks #children #down #go #i

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#always #because #estate #garden #i

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. ↗

— Colin Powell

#backyard #challenge #even #own #pros

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#day #down #either #experience #hear

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#am #fall #fire #gun #him